Timm1687
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These issues may be unrelated. 2017 Limited 4x4 with ~160k miles.
Occasionally about once or twice a quarter.. more often in the winter for some reason, I smell a slight burning smell in the cabin. It is not coming through the vents and doesn't matter if heater is on or not. Kinda smells like burnt oil I think it transmission fluid. Very hard to decipher which exactly.
Anyways I was changing oil recently along with serpentine belts for good measure. Belts were fine but saw what looked like caked on oil on the front diff and signs of occasional leak on the back of oil pan.
I think the front diff oil for just be residual when changing oil filter but oil near back of pan looked like a seal leak.
It's never enough that I have to top off oil between 5k oil change interval.
Should this be something I fix or ride it out until/if it becomes a heavier leak? Pictures attached.
Occasionally about once or twice a quarter.. more often in the winter for some reason, I smell a slight burning smell in the cabin. It is not coming through the vents and doesn't matter if heater is on or not. Kinda smells like burnt oil I think it transmission fluid. Very hard to decipher which exactly.
Anyways I was changing oil recently along with serpentine belts for good measure. Belts were fine but saw what looked like caked on oil on the front diff and signs of occasional leak on the back of oil pan.
I think the front diff oil for just be residual when changing oil filter but oil near back of pan looked like a seal leak.
It's never enough that I have to top off oil between 5k oil change interval.
Should this be something I fix or ride it out until/if it becomes a heavier leak? Pictures attached.
