Hi guys, wonder you guys had try those "stop leak" or what so ever that put in engine or transmission oil will stop leak after 500 miles (they said?) my wife 98 max had lightly leak/drip on both engine & transmission, the car had 130K miles on it, don't feel like spend too much on it, any ideas? thanks.

 

Don't put any of that stuff in the engine, it will do more harm than anything. Someone put some stop leak in my Q45s cooling system before and it took me a while to get rid of all that ****. I fixed all the cooling system issues on it, but that stop leak stuff is terrible. Just fix the leaks, probably the torque converter seal leaking and maybe the lower oil pan or oil pressure sending unit, also wanna check the tranny cooler lines for any leakage. These are normal Maxima "leak spots". For a 3.0L that is, 3.5L has some issues with leaking valve covers also.

 

I highly recommend you do not use them. What is leaking, motor oil or ATF?

 

Don't use stopleak if your looking to save money, use pepper. Two tablespoons per quart of oil should take care of it. Much cheaper too.

 

I was wondering if Paprika would work..?

No, really, is that what you used?

 

haha thanks guy

 

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no...

fix the problem, dont put a band-aid on it...

 

sigh........I used to take care of it a lot, since I got mine 2k Max I had pass this baby (98SE) to my wife and everything start going wrong, and now it is 130k miles on it the body got some scratch aroung, especially front and rear bumper, made me hate this car more compare to my new one (I know I am bad), don't feel like to invest more money in it and want to sell it for a newer Civic for my wife, gas today are expensive though.

 

First off: Engrish... Learn it.

Secondly: DO NOT USE STOPLEAK!!!! You'll screw up your knock sensor and actuator costing hundreds more than just fixing the leak.

 

oh my friend I remember you had post that you need some bad coil for some sort of test, do u still need it? I just replaced my cyc#6 I finally found out after drove for a month with code P1320 only.

 

I am sorry, pardon my language, I am foreigner came to US and not even finish 1st year of college 15 years ago, had to support myself and not had any luxury (money) to continue school.
By the way GBAUER, Phatmax still haven't refund my money yet, he send me a mail on Sept 13 and promised me he going to do it but still haven't, and he is still around this forum sometime. (remember I had post a thread for Looking for someone in regional forum).
Anyway, thankyou for the advise of what should do and what not.
I love this forum so much that I learn a lot from everyone, and atmost everynight I will check on it although I didn't post a lot.

 

I'm sending you a PM with his number. I haven't seen or spoken to him in months. He fell off the face of the Earth about midway through summer.