72MachOne99GT

Had an oil leak for awhile and had the car dropped off to see where the leak was coming from.

As I had a feeling, it's coming from where the block meets the piece that the oil filter mounts on.

Mechanic said it'd be 2 hours labor (70 dollars or so) but I'm sure I could probably do it myself.

Anyone done it before? Is it tough?

Keep in mind the weather here has taken a **** and it's cold as fcku out.

Sxynerd

Buy the part, go outside set the car up on jack stands, and drain the coolant and pull the oil filter. Go back inside and warm up. Go back out and remove 5 or 6 bolts that hold it together, replace the part moving over the oil pressure sensor and stuff. Go back inside and warm up. Top off the fluids and run to operating temp then check the fluids again.

cliffyk

That is the oil filter adapter--here's the R&R procedure from the '03 shop manual.

Note that you have to drain the oil and the coolant, as there is coolant flow through the adapter to provide for some cooling of the engine oil--I'd pay the $70...

Bullitt2theHead

Are you sure its the adaptor housing itself? Typically its the gasket that goes out. $70 isnt a bad price. I usually charge 1.5 hours but the dealerships labor rate is friggin $85.

It all boils down to if you want to make mess or not.

amoosenamedhank

It really depends on how much free time you have, how cold it is where you are, and whether you can't find something better to do with $70. Personally I wouldn't pay someone to do that, but I'm stubborn like that. I will freeze my ***** off just to say I didn't pay the $70. You may be smarter than I am.

03BottleFedGT

from a mechanics view we are slow this time of year and need something to do. save yourself the headache and spend the 70 bucks

72MachOne99GT

My bad, yes it is the gasket itself instead of the actual piece itself being bad. Although that will likely require the exact same work as the write-up that cliffy sent me.

Part of me wants to do it since 70 dollars is usually a 8 hour shift at work, and the other part of me says that the 5 below 0 temps the last few days might not leave for awhile.

Is it literally just 6 (I think) bolts holding it on? Then replacing the gasket and reattaching? (Obviously draining both fluids, I'm on my phone and can't do links right now.)

BraMas

The other thing to think about is it bad enough to worry about right now? If it isn't that bad maybe wait until it warms up a little to get it done. I'm sure it will get back up in the 30's with in the next few weeks. Allot easier to work on a car outside in the 30's than it is with all this - wind chill right now