{"id":11018,"date":"2019-01-23T12:13:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techlink.mynetworkcontent.com\/?p=11018"},"modified":"2019-01-23T12:40:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:40:58","slug":"oil-pan-drain-plug-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/?p=11018","title":{"rendered":"Oil Pan Drain Plug Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">An engine oil leak may be noticed after an oil and filter change on some 2017-2019 Cruze and 2018-2019 Equinox and Terrain models equipped with the 1.6L 4-cylinder diesel engine (RPO LH7). (Fig. 16)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11009\" src=\"https:\/\/techlink.mynetworkcontent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/F16-oil-plug-LH7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/F16-oil-plug-LH7.jpg 740w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/F16-oil-plug-LH7-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/F16-oil-plug-LH7-85x55.jpg 85w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/F16-oil-plug-LH7-200x130.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Fig. 16<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The oil leak may be the result of not replacing the oil pan drain plug seal after an oil change. The seal (Fig. 17, #2) on the drain plug (Fig. 17, #1) should be replaced each time the drain plug is removed from the oil pan. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11010\" src=\"https:\/\/techlink.mynetworkcontent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/F17-oil-plug-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/F17-oil-plug-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/F17-oil-plug-1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/F17-oil-plug-1-85x55.jpg 85w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/F17-oil-plug-1-200x130.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Fig. 17<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">When performing an oil change, after draining the oil and disposing of the oil filter insert, install a new oil filter insert (Fig. 18, #1) and oil filter cap o-ring. (Fig. 18, #2) Coat the o-ring with new, clean engine oil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11011\" src=\"https:\/\/techlink.mynetworkcontent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/F18-oil-plug-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/F18-oil-plug-2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/F18-oil-plug-2-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/F18-oil-plug-2-85x55.jpg 85w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/F18-oil-plug-2-200x130.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Fig. 18<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>TIP:<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> The 1.6L diesel engine uses a special high-performance oil filter. Use only the specified oil filter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Install the filter cap. Be sure not to over-torque the filter cap or an oil leak could occur. Use a new o-ring when installing the oil filter cap plug.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Next, install a new oil pan drain plug seal and tighten the drain plug to specification. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><i>&#8211; Thanks to Javier Hinojos<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An engine oil leak may be noticed after an oil and filter change on some 2017-2019 Cruze and 2018-2019 Equinox and Terrain models equipped with the 1.6L 4-cylinder diesel engine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11035,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018\/revisions\/11035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}