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Place a clean flattened cardboard under your car and see if it's leaking out. If it's not dripping oil, check your radiator for the presence of oil using a dye test kit available at NAPA. If there is a leak coming from under your car, try to determine from where it's dripping. Most common is an oil filter that hasn't been tightened properly or leaking oil sump bolt. A 1/4 turn on the oil filter should stop the leak, if its the sump... a new screw washer for the sump bolt will usually cure that. Check around the sump mounting bolts, if a fresh leak is evident, you will need a new sump gasket, don't try to tighten the existing bolts as it make leak worse! Tighten to torque specs. Otherwise, you are burning it up... exhaust smoke should be dark instead of light gray. White smoke indicates a blown head gasket and the oil is getting into the engine.
Steering wheel will fine untill the power steering oil is full, so till the time you are not getting it fixed , keep a check on power steering oil contain. Once the oil container gets low you will find it hard to steer the wheel.
SOUND LIKE FRONT CRANKSHAFT TIMING COVER SEAL OR REAR MAIN OIL SEAL LEAKING START ENGINE LET IT IDLE SEE IF YOU SEE OIL DRIPPING UNDERNEATH CAR LOOK FOR OIL LEAK AT TIMING COVER OR AT REAR OF ENGINE WHERE REAR MAIN SEAL LOCATED. CHECK ON TOP OF ENGINE INTAKE MANIFOLD AREA WHERE OIL PUMP DRIVE GEAR IS.O - RING AT THE OIL PUMP DRIVE GEAR WILL CAUSE LARGE OIL LEAK.OIL PUMP DRIVE GEAR IS LOCATED WHERE THE DISTRIBUTOR USE TO BE LOCATED.KEEP EYE ON OIL LEVEL IN CRANK CASE.KEEP PLENTY ENGINE OIL ON HAND UNTIL YOU FIX.I WOULD FIND LOCATE PROBLEM QUICK AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE OIL LEVEL GET TOO LOW ENGINE WILL SEIZE UP LACK OF OIL..
Keep checking the oil every time you gas up and you will be able to estimate how much oil it uses/100 miles or so. Then you can plan your trip. If the oil gets too low a warning will show up. That engine has about 7 quarts in the pan. As long as you don't run the engine low on oil the leak is just waste.
CHECK TO SEE IF IS LOW IN OIL/ THAT WOULD GIVE A GOOD RESON FOR THE LIGTHS TO COME ON . MAYBE OIL LEAK OR JUST LOW . I WOULD CHANGE THE OIL-FILTER -THEN KEEP CHECK ON OIL LEVEL TO SEE IF LEAKING OR USING OIL.
This depends on how much oil is leaking, if you can check this level and keep it full no matter how much you drive, it should be fine but if you get low on oil and keep driving you may blow or break something very expensive to replace. Make sure you keep your oil levels topped off, and if you can not service it take it to someone that can, good luck PS: people drive around every day with oil leaks they just make sure not to get low on oil because knowing how important oil is to keep full is important to not breaking down.
The knocking noise is likely the result of a low oil state. Hopefully keeping the oil at the proper level will prevent any damage from getting worse. But without being there and hearing it, I really can't tell you what it is.
As for the oil leak itself, it could be coming from one or more of a dozen areas. Locating the leak is your first step toward fixing it.
To find the leak, I suggest getting a couple cans of engine degreaser. I prefer the foaming stuff. Use it to clean the engine of any exterior oil.
Make sure the oil is at the proper level, then run the car.
Have another look at the engine. Any fresh oil you see will point to where the leak is.
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