Think I have an oil leak but it's too cold to check. No oil on the driveway or parking spot at work. After my drive home I can smell burning oil. Oil level is going down over time.

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My Cardomain

If you can smell it I would suspect it getting on the exhaust components and that would lead me to check the valve covers, possibly the gaskets needing replaced.

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2001 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP
It whines a lot, but I like it.

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it's too cold to pop the hood and see all your oil leaking out the valve cover gaskets onto teh manifolds??!1?!!!!!!!

do you have a valve cover breather, I've seen those spit oil

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more than likely it's your VC gaskets...

when you replac ethem make sure to scrape off all the black carbon/coking on the VC rail sealing surfaces...even new VC gaskets will leak if you dont.

since its not touching the ground i doubt it's the oil pressure sender but it's easy enough to unplug the electrical connector and look for oil that usually finds its way through the plastic/pins joint on higher mile senders.

haw many qts per 1000 miles?

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I would say if you smell it burning, probably the valve cover gaskets. Easy enough to change.

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It's been down in the teens or 60-80 mph wind gust with severe thunderstorms for the past two weeks. I think we might of had a tornado or two also.

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My Cardomain

Ahh I live in Alaska and i change valve covers in the negitives all the time here. The teens here means a tee shirt and shorts. Anyways man you can go to napa and what you can do is well first of all clean off all the junk off your motor and you can buy this dye from napa and possibly barrow there black or blue light from them. then you just poor that dye into a fresh batch of oil and put it into your car after empting out the other oil. Now put it in there and let it run for a few minutes. you can take the black light and see this either bright orange or yellow dye coming out of your leaking spot. That has saved me so much time before on cars here it aint even funny.
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