clintnovaclaw

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Hello again. This is response to my previous post.

The oil leaking is definitly not transmission oil.

After lifting the neon (96 SOHC), traced the oil leak to above the transmission, looks like a slow leak from a green electronic unit almost directly above it.

Would anyone happen to know which sensor/switch this is most probable?
oil pressure switch, cam position sensor, vehicle speed sensor?

Thanks!

clintnovaclaw

As update, after we had touched the green unit when we lifted the car, now the Oil Pressure light turns on and off intermittently when driving. Oil dipstick level reports at max. Is it bad to keep driving like this?

Thanks again.

denisond3

If the unit it is leaking from is on the back side of the block, toward the bottom - thats the oil pressure sending unit. It is known to leak. If the wire on it is shorting to the block now and then - the oil light will come on. It may also come on because the oil is leaking past it. It only takes about 5 psi of oil pressure at an idle to keep the light from coming on. The contacts might shut just because the sensor is letting too much of it leak past.
The sending unit isnt too expensive. Getting a wrench in there is the hardest part. If you keep adequate oil on the dipstick, the chances are very good that you can ignore the oil indicator light.
If the wire to the sending unit is shorting to the block, or other grounded item, the new sending unit will fix the leak, but not the oil light coming on.