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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 07:38 PM
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I need help!

I just went to return some movies and when I turned around I noticed some smoke coming from the grill I popped my hood to notice I had a bit of oil in the coils of the radiator so I look down by the alternator to notice oil all over the place there is a bunch below on the plastic some up on the alternator just about everywhere in that area any idea were this might be coming from?
 
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 08:22 PM
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Hard to say for sure but there is a crank sensor in that area. The crank sensors are prone to leaking due to failing o-rings. When they start leaking, it's usually a slow leak that weeps down the front of the engine a bit to the right of center. Your leak sounds more drastic than that. Let us know what you discover.
 
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 08:29 PM
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I just got the car back from Carmax about 2 weeks ago due to a oil pan gasket leak but since then I have put on a 17% pulley I may just take it back to them and hopefully they don't say anything about it
 
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 10:37 PM
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Did you change your oil filter recently? Could be a broken gasket.
 
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Old Apr 23, 2013 | 05:33 AM
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Yes they did the oil filter when they did the pan gasket but its the front corner of the motor near the belt and the supercharger
 
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