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Originally Posted by PhaseP
First, relax.
Second, do not undo any of the job you did.
You are misreading what the computer is telling you. It tells you that the oil level is 1 quart less than full, and asking you to add 1 quart. As others already posted it is like the dipstick used to be. It is showing the level of the last quarter.
Also the engine needs 7 qt of oil with each oil change. You put 6 qts, and now it is telling you that you need to add 1 qt more, that is just expected, nothing wrong there.
I don't know why you decided it would need 6 qts to fill.
And the oil sweating between the transmission bell housing and oil pan area, some of the oil that had been leaking goes there. Anyone who had leaking oil pan has some oil accumulated in there. This residual oil keeps coming out slowly after fixing the oil pan leak for a few days.
If you see oil there still coming out after a week or so, it may indicate you have rear crankshaft seal leaking.
So just add 1 more qt oil as the computer is telling you to the engine, and clean and watch out that area a week or so, if oil will stop coming out or not. If it keeps coming out there, you may, but necessarily, may rear seal issue.
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Thanks to everyone that has pitched in and replied to my post. Really appreciate the advice.
It turns out that I might have not plugged in the oil level sensor cable correctly after changing the oil pan gasket. The message I was seeing on the dashboard was indeed indicating that I had less than 1 quart of oil which is less than the minimum level.
I found this link online that shows a similar error message:
https://www.quora.com/Does-check-eng...0-1L-to-top-up
I drained the oil pan and it was clear that it was full. So I made sure the oil level sensor plug is connected properly and put in new oil: 6 Quartz. Have been driving the car now for over a week and the oil level sensor shows that the oil level is at max level ;-)
Regarding the sweating, what i did is I just changed the bolts around the area that was sweating (bell housing) with new ones and re-torqued. Will check again in a few weeks to see if that helped or not and how much oil is coming out.
Thanks again for the tips.