HG oil Weep?

[john40iowa]

After now about 70K on the rebuild, I am noticing a little oil weep on the drivers side rear of the engine, about a year or so. It does not get any worse, nor enough to effect the oil level much between changes. However, I was wondering if any ya all have heard of stop leak helping with this issue? Or maybe switching from the synthetic to Dino would help. I am not talking about the coolant goop, which has been added religiously with every change, and that system is fine.

Thanks for any insight.

[idosubaru]

you don't mention what vehicle, year, or engine but oil additives and stop leaks are a really bad idea as any long term solution. if it's junk then do whatever you want. if you consider this a good vehicle that has more years/miles in it then don't use oil additives/stop leak. the best thing for an engine crankcase is oil and nothing else.

 

what gasket was used?

[john40iowa]

Thanks for pointing this out, as it is very valid. The car is '99 Forester, with the 2.5 SOHC (200K). Good condition and daily driver. No, I don't want to make things worse and can wait it out, there is no problem here in terms of urgency. It has actually been a very reliable car and owes me nothing.

Gaskets who knows- 2004, I suspect inferior.

[Ricearu]

with that much mileage, I personally would keep doing whatever you are doing. It's working well.

 

I personally would probobly run rotella t (DINO) 15w-40. I put it in all my subarus that are over 150k. But there are arguements against that. The only subaru I have had bottom end problems on is my 1997 DOHC outback, which has been overheated to hell