Few engine problems

greensentra · Feb 24th, 2003, 06:30 PM

What's up people it's been long.
Yep! my car is acting up again it's leaking oil somewhere in the
engine close to the a/c pump or close to the alternator I don't know the oil is all over the belt area, and the power steering gets kinda hard and makes a screeching noise when I turn the wheel.
This power steering problem only occurs when it's cold weather, what the hell even the reservoir is full and I changed the main hose last year. And finally the steering is acting like always when I go on a sharp turn the steering wheel vibrates but no clanking noise.
Sometimes this car pisses me off but I get in better moods when
I log in to the forums and see all the car pictures of everbody here, so anyways just want to know if anybody have any pointers on this shitty situation. Thank you all.

HKS20DET · Feb 24th, 2003, 06:49 PM

my guess is front main oil seal. and maybe u need a new PS pump.i had a leak im my PS hoses... the resevoir never went dry but my PS still went out. actually these two things happened right at the same time basically. with a week. FMS is a pretty easy fix. involves takin the belts off. taking off the crank pulley and replacing the seal.

greensentra · Feb 24th, 2003, 07:05 PM

How do I get to it? do I have to dismantle the engine or just take some parts out. And the power steering pump is it easy to get to cause it looks like it's hard to get to.

Dynamitega · Feb 24th, 2003, 07:45 PM

The oil leak sounds like a front or rear main seal problem. At around 50k, mine had the front main go bad which is pretty easy for most to do. On my older sentra, the rear main seal went out at around 100k and that was a lot more trouble to fix because the transmission had to be taken out to get to it. Good luck.