LeakyVQ

Here’s the story. I’ve been chasing oil leaks with this motor for awhile now. The cars been sitting for about a year. It’s a VQ35DE out of a 05 maxima that I swapped into my Sentra.

I just got done redoing the oil cooler gasket, timing cover, front seal, rear main, and the two half moons of the upper oil pan.

Did them all out of the vehicle to get them perfectly sealed. This helped tremendously however I’m still getting this leak that absolutely SOAKS my p/s pump, the banjo bolt p/s hose that runs from the resivour down to the pump, cv boot and tie road end boot.

The valve covers looked pretty dry and I replaced them 2 years ago so I’m not thinking that’s the issue.

I also haven’t replaced the oil pressure sensor yet since it seems unlikely it would consistently spray High enough up to get to the p/s.

Anyone have any experience with this?

User1

Keep an eye on power steering fluid level. Beyond that, and getting underneath it while it was running and leaking, which none of us here can do, no clue.

DPenfield

Same thing was happening to mine. I have a 2008 and everything seems to go wrong. I traced mine up to the power steering reservoir. The res was fine, but the hoses coming from it were old and worn . It cleaned everything up, disconnected the hoses, trimmed the ends that connected to the reservoir , wrapped the tubing with self sealing auto tape and put new clamps on when I reconnected it. It's been fine every since with no leaks. But that's also when I realized there is something going on with the power steering pump itself also. Check all hoses, clamps and belts