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I have oil leaking/weeping from the front of this sensor just below and to the left of my oil filter. Can anyone tell me what sensor it is (oil pressure?) and if I should replace the whole thing? I have had no luck tightening the screw at the front which is where it is leaking, at the very front just behind the screw.

Thanks for any help

Rhet

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Your oil/water exchanger is in the picture, it might be leaking oil from there.

it was leaking from there but I replaced the seal and its no longer leaking that's on old photo, I'm actually watching it leak from the sensor with the engine running.

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Don't over tighten it, you might wreck the thread. Take it off, clean the oil off the thread on the sensor and in the water/oil exchanger with a can of brake or carby cleaner. Use some gasket sealer on the thread of the sensor to help seal it when you do it back up.

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Don't over tighten it, you might wreck the thread. Take it off, clean the oil off the thread on the sensor and in the water/oil exchanger with a can of brake or carby cleaner. Use some gasket sealer on the thread of the sensor to help seal it when you do it back up.

I have only tried tightening the screw on the very end of the sensor not the whole sensor screwing into the block but yeah I didn't move it much and it didn't help. Do you have any idea what the sensor is? if i'm going to remove it i may as well replace it, id hate for it to leak if I cleaned it and put it back on

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It's leaking from the thread isn't it? You don't need to replace the sensor if it is.

Not the thread where it screws into the block no, the sensor itself is leaking from in front of the black plastic part behind the silver screw that's circled in the pic

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now I'm having an interesting and annoying problem lol, the new sensor fits in a 1 inch socket but the old one is slightly larger, a 26mm is to small and a 27mm is too big as is a 1 and 1/16! WTF it's driving me mad I think I'm gonna chuck vice grips on it if it's possible I'm so damn angry haha.

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