oil leak

[David Flynn]

I appear to have an oil leak coming from the behind the crank shaft pulley which only shows up with engine running. How difficult is it to replace the oil seal, or could there be another cause of this leak? Repaired leak coming from the camchain tensioner which I thoucht was the cause but no luck.
Any help would be appreciated. Cheers.

[jesusfreak]

I replaced the front main seal in mine. It was a fairly easy job, nothing too involved...an impact gun would help...on a scale of 1-10 (1 being new and 10expert) i would say this job is a 4. Just take the serpentine off, passanger tire and wheel well plastic liner, loosen the top engine mount screw (not all the way) and then take the pulley off. Toughest part for me was a little c-clip that is actaully pretty big lol but that's all!

[Finding41]

I'm trying to pinpoint a leak around there too. Not sure if it was my head gasket or valve cover gasket but I re-torked the head and did the valve cover gaskets and cleaned most of or some of the oil off. Now I'm waiting to see if that was the problem. If not it will have to wait until I'm back form holidays in a few weeks. (Unless my father in-law wants to work on a Saab with me.)

[David Flynn]

Have new seal, just waiting for good weather. Hopefully pulley comes off easily but being automatic it might be a bit more difficult.

[Burnsside42]

You need # 15 a& 16 shown above - found below;
55557231 Aftermarket - Oil Pump Seal (Front Crank Seal) - Elring 0330965 - Free Shipping
9130600 Aftermarket - Oil Pump O-Ring - Proparts 21340600 - Free Shipping

You will need a set of these -
Mac Tools Online Store - Internal Straight Replaceable Tip Pliers

MAC Tools - TP7
Or equivlent.

[AT ONE SIR]

that's some seriously solid info. well done.

[Burnsside42]

It's what I do

[Finding41]

I just clicked on the EuroParts link. They now ship to Canada! And say there is no extra fees on out end via Fed-X.
It looks like I need at least crank seals for my 03 Aero Wagon. (It didn't leak on my way to PEI. 2000k but it has just now decided to start while we are here.... Ahhh.)

[trwilson70]

I did this last weekend, in addition to new belt tensioner pulley, idler pulley and belt. Not a difficult project - except the C-ring, even though I had a large plier from a transmission rebuild, it was just a tad small but I got it to work. I tapped at the edge of the ring with a small hammer to kinda break its seal where it had been for 160K miles. Replaced the seal and o-ring. I removed the plate covering the torque converter, took a piece of flat steel w/2 holes, a fewer washers to level - held everything during the process. I was able to remove nut with 1/2" breaker bar - re-torqued to 129 ft. lbs. - found one article that said 250 ft. lbs. - but it was nowhere near that tight in removing.