How well does the stuff you buy in a bottle at auto parts stores to stop oil leaks in your engine work?

how do they work? and do they damage your engine at all?



which brand or brands is best and how often do you need to keep pouring it in your engine and why, how depends?How well does the stuff you buy in a bottle at auto parts stores to stop oil leaks in your engine work?
Fix the leak, magic in can is not going to help you. Even if the leak stops this crap will cause so many other issues there's to many to list.

1) identify the leak, Get some motor gunk and clean the engine, once the engine is clean this will make finding the leak easy.

2) Once identified determine if this is something easy you can do like a valve cover gasket or will require a mechanic.

3) take appropriate measures once step two is determined.

4) NEVER PUT ANYTHING IN THE CRANKCASE BUT OIL!How well does the stuff you buy in a bottle at auto parts stores to stop oil leaks in your engine work?
What car is it and I bet we can tell u exactly whats needed!

A quart is quite a bit to lose and as has been said, a stop leak is not going to work.

Front centre could be as little as a seal around a pressure switch through to Crank or Cam seal all depending on how engine lies in vehicle!

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There are only a few places the oil can spill out from the front:

Could be cam cver gasket, sump seal or the dreaded cam or crank seals. The rest of the front of this engine is just water points.

If you remove upper timing cover you can eliminate cam seals, if they are clean then it points to crank seal!

It is not as scary a job as you think and if your timing belt is due, you can do all at same time!How well does the stuff you buy in a bottle at auto parts stores to stop oil leaks in your engine work?
i used that stuff before and it did not damage the engine any but it did not stop the leak either. if it,s leaking pretty bad then it must be a seal. as long as it,s leaking that bad i would buy the cheap oil at the dollar store. if it,s a seal then the only way around that is change the seal.
The stop leak stuff I used was for the engine's piston rings/head. You can try it it won't hurt your car. Just get an oil change after about 500 miles or 2 weeks.

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