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PDQ 1 · 08-01-2012, 03:57 PM

Anyone know of a Chevy dealership with top notch service in central Ohio?
My LS3 still has the oil leak after the oil cooler assembly was replaced. I took it to the dealership where I bought it for the oil leak and the spoiler spacer issues. It looks like they handled the spoiler with very little care. I had to rub the scratches in the spoiler out when I got home. They also stated that they had not heard of the oil leak issues with the V8s. So I am not comfortable with taking it back there. BTW The same tech that scratched the spoiler installed the oil cooler.

lionssfan · 08-01-2012, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by PDQ 1

Anyone know of a Chevy dealership with top notch service in central Ohio?
My LS3 still has the oil leak after the oil cooler assembly was replaced. I took it to the dealership where I bought it for the oil leak and the spoiler spacer issues. It looks like they handled the spoiler with very little care. I had to rub the scratches in the spoiler out when I got home. They also stated that they had not heard of the oil leak issues with the V8s. So I am not comfortable with taking it back there. BTW The same tech that scratched the spoiler installed the oil cooler.

I've had a oil leak around the cooler and was very hard to tell if it was the oil pan or oil cooler. I changed the gasket at the cooler and still leaks. looks like the oil pan is my problem.

lawdog · 08-12-2012, 11:33 PM

IT'S A EASY FIX. there is a TSB on the gasket which is used to connect the oil cooler to the block. It's no biggy. Most dealers have the gasket in stock. And yes some of them don't know about the TSB. It's a half hour job while you wait for the car, can be done when you get the oil changed same time. It's a two inch oval elongated gasket that compresses, sometimes too much because the block there is porous. it can look like it's coming from the filter or pan if you don't keep the underside clean enough to pinpoint it

lionssfan · 08-13-2012, 09:53 PM

already changed the TSB gasket (two o-ring gasket) yes it's an easy change. but is hard to tell where the oil leak is coming from if it's in this area. Mine still leaking. I'll deal with it when I put a cam in.

08-01-2012, 03:57 PM	#1
PDQ 1 Drives: 2010 2RS/SS LS3 Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Central OH Posts: 2	Oil Leak. Needs to go back in Anyone know of a Chevy dealership with top notch service in central Ohio? My LS3 still has the oil leak after the oil cooler assembly was replaced. I took it to the dealership where I bought it for the oil leak and the spoiler spacer issues. It looks like they handled the spoiler with very little care. I had to rub the scratches in the spoiler out when I got home. They also stated that they had not heard of the oil leak issues with the V8s. So I am not comfortable with taking it back there. BTW The same tech that scratched the spoiler installed the oil cooler.

08-12-2012, 11:33 PM	#3
lawdog Drives: 2010 SSII w RS & Sunroof Yellow Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: West Suburbs of Chicago, in a Courthouse Somewhere Posts: 953	IT'S A EASY FIX. there is a TSB on the gasket which is used to connect the oil cooler to the block. It's no biggy. Most dealers have the gasket in stock. And yes some of them don't know about the TSB. It's a half hour job while you wait for the car, can be done when you get the oil changed same time. It's a two inch oval elongated gasket that compresses, sometimes too much because the block there is porous. it can look like it's coming from the filter or pan if you don't keep the underside clean enough to pinpoint it

08-13-2012, 09:53 PM	#4
lionssfan Drives: 2010 2ss camaro Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: mi Posts: 1,184 View My Garage	already changed the TSB gasket (two o-ring gasket) yes it's an easy change. but is hard to tell where the oil leak is coming from if it's in this area. Mine still leaking. I'll deal with it when I put a cam in.