02 Monte SS Oil Leak

I replaced one of my fuel injectors yesterday to fix a hesitation problem I had when accerlating and noticed a small puddle of oil on the back side of the engine next to the intake manifold. Could this be due to a leak in my intake manifold gasket?

could be and also a good cause to help make your hessitaion on there to

maybe it''s just fate!!  My mechanic just informed me that my lower intake gasket is leaking!!!   No big deal tho from what he tells me.

glad to hear it is nothing to serious.
 
I would love to see that replacment done once or twice or even photos of it being done.
 
I want to get a intake from a donar car and then start playign with it to see if i can make one flow better etc....

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ORIGINAL: mickey

glad to hear it is nothing to serious.

I would love to see that replacment done once or twice or even photos of it being done.

I want to get a intake from a donar car and then start playign with it to see if i can make one flow better etc....

Oh don''t worry, Mickey. If you have DexCool in your Monte and the car long enough you''ll be able to see the replacement done. :o) It''s not a big deal though. lol

ahhhh!! but see i dont have DEX-CRAP in my car havent for over two years or so now.
I never liked that stuff to begin with.

haha good for you! I wish I knew then what I know now! :o) LOL. 

yeah i never liked it and when they did thier so called recall on it then added stop leak tabs to the stuff i took it home flushed it out and put in the green stuff.

good thing you did that. Those stop leak tabs plug up heater cores. lol

So from what I''m hearing it is not that big of a headache to replace the upper gasket I took off the fuel rail myself when I replaced the injectors and from what I can remember thats all that was in the way?

Do yourself the favor and replace the whole intake.  This is what I''ve heard from three different mechanics today! 

Do the whole thing. 99.99999% of the time its the lower intake leaking anyway. It''s like doing wheelbearings, if you do one you may as well do both. Save time and a headache because if you replace the upper gasket and the lower fails later, you need to replace the upper again. Get a Fel-pro kit. Also, make sure you get a gasket for your throttle body where it attaches to the upper intake plenum.

kool Im just lazy and havent gone out to look at it honestly. the last tiem i did anythign with it was a year or two ago and i dint get that far in to it.

Yeah can we say thanks to G.M for the stop leak tabs that shoudl eb named no flow tabs.
I could not belive they did that and actually said oh dont worry that is the recall fix !! DO WHAT?!!!!!!!! I DONT THINK SO NOT IN MY CAR!!!!
 
Also one mor ething there is a mad for our cars if you do not liv ein a real cold climate look in to blocking the T/B off from the kooling system it will take the hot water out of it and giv eyoua bit more responce but also allow for cooler air in to it this way . you cna look it up i beliv eit is on  zzp''s site but worth the look .
 
I would if i had the cash put a spacer on there also

Oh boy....I live in MI....so no possibility for me....but it would be funny to see someone in a cool climate do that!

yeah i am sur eit would be defently a way to wake you up.
 
But what would be even nicer is a way to have  a valve that can shut it off or on depending the time of year LOL
 
Iknow all about MI. winters LOL lived in Onaway for a short perid of 6years as a kid. still remebe rthe snow banks over the roof tops there. LOL
 

No kidding. One of my closest friends is from Onaway. She''s considerably younger than you are though. LOL.  Northern MI is nice. 

We loved it there dad used to work for the U.A.W. center up there.
kind of where i found the love of the out doors our back yard was a forrest. i rember seeign the bears come up there as a kid thinking it was neat but never knowing what they could do to the window we were behind LOL
never feed them but some of the folks did . kind of a way to keep them from going after anyones dogs lol

My car engine is doing better since I replace the injector but my transmission is still jerky when it sifts sometimes. The dealership told me it is some valve on my transmission wanted 800 to replace it. I was wondering if the intake leak could cause the valve to not work properly if it ran off a vacum line?

No. The transmission and engine other than the flywheel are two seperate things. If you have a valve going you have a valve going. $800 is going to be a whole lot cheaper that $1500-$2k when the whole transmission goes. I''d do it. 

Today I was reading my haynes repair manual in reference to my transmission shifting hard and had a vacum modulator for the transmission that could be the problem. I planned on checking the modulator and vacum line going to it but was unable to locate it. The manual said it was on the front side of the transmission under the crossover exhaust pipe but no luck. Does my 02 ss have this modulator?