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Good point maddog. Mine does have a stainer (it was clean). The stainer is a good thing to check when you've got access.

I wrapped the upper 2 (of 3) rubber ridges on the oil sensor with 4-5 turns of teflon tape. Problem solved - no more leak.

If had to do it again I would use 10-12 layers of tape. With 4-5 layers it slipped in plenty easy. I'm sure that it would have slipped in fine with 10 layers.

Larry

OK, telfon tape it is.

I'll post back here after I'm done to let others know how it worked.

Thanks ALOW1 and keithw!

ALOW1: Regarding wrapping the sensor with some teflon tape, the answer is YES - very doable. If the tank held water rather than oil that's what I would have done. But I haven't tried teflon tape because I don't know how teflon tape will hold up in oil.

In the end that's what I may try. But for ...

My 1997 Elite started leaking clean oil. I opened things up and found that the problem was the oil level sensor (picture on page 2-5 of Service Manual).

The cylindrical sensor fits into a cylindrical tube on the oil tank. There are 3 plastic ridges running around the sensor that are supposed to ...