"fixed" my oil leak.

With my transmission leaking into the bell housing and dripping through the drain hole, I've been driving on borrowed time for a while. I've been carrying a large drip pan (litter box) in the back to place under it when parked but feel guilty about what's coming out underway...especially on the beach.

So for the holiday weekend I "crafted" a solution. A 12"x24" piece of carpet suspended under the drip. It has a wire looped arround the front of the oil pan's skid plate to the front corners,and 2 wires from the back corners to holes in the frame. After 3-4 days of driving it just started to soak through and is ready to be replaced.

Before anyone asks, yes I have been topping the oil as I go.

 

huggies ?
depends ?

 

I thought the Jeep signature was that they mark their territory everywhere they go. How does your Jeep feel about you keeping it from doing this.

 

We had a long talk before-hand.

 

R)

 

Very "shade-tree"! Gotta love it.

 

Berber or shag?

 

That's absolutely classic!R)

You could improve on it a bit by suspended a bigger piece at all four corners of the jeep!

 

I garbage-picked a bunch of cut-offs from a house that got new carpet, some berber and some more generic. I figured the berber was too fancy.

thought a lot about the size. Didn't want it too close to the exhaust pipe or driveshafts.

 

R) Shag-a-delic! R)

 

Maybe carpet should be standard equipment on the top of all skid plates.R)

 

How hot does your oil soaked carpet get.... could it be a potential fire hazard?