Oil leak near VVT Soleniod

07NAHWKI

07NAHWKI

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So it appears I have a oil leak near the drivers side VVT soleniod. There is a very shallow pool of oil in the red box, and you can kinda see the oil film over the sensor. I'm wondering if anybody has any ideas where the oil could be coming from? I've had issue with valve cover gasket getting replaces in twice in the first 70,000 miles, so this was my first thought. Car has 109k miles, my fear is the headgaskets. 





Any input would be appreciated.

 
obvious first thing to check is that the solenoid is bolted in to full torque. then replace seal. if still leaking, light car on fire.

simple!

 
Yes its your oil pressure switch for the vvt.  Very common on the 06 and 07s.  DO NOT torque the new ones down hard, you will split your heads.  Just snug them up.  I recommend doing both switches (one on each head) at the same time.  Occasionally they just outright fail and you wont be able to rev past 4k.  They are fairly cheap for a dealer only part.  Simple repair, just unplug and unscrew the old one, screw in the new one and plug it in.  Done.

 
Thanks, I will definitely be replacing both, from what I have read there about $30 from a dealer, which isn't bad.  Does anybody know how hard the passenger side is to reach, I plan on trying to find it tomorrow.

 
There was someone on here that split his motor trying to crank one down.. I believe he attempted jd weld

 
Replaced the oil pressure sensor's in about 30 minutes, the next day when I ran her, I noticed that my oil pressure gauge responding to throttle increases better, but that may just be my mind playing tricks on me. Thanks for the helps guys, its been about a week since I swapped them and I've had no new oil deposits.

 
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