What is this leak? How do I fix it?

[TheChucklesStart]

So, tonight, I went exploring in my jeep (near my house) and found a trail I had never seen before. It had been washed out pretty badly (in multiple places) and I tried driving down it. At one point I got my jeep at a pretty steep angle trying to get through the washout and also laid my jeep down on its belly (nearly high centering). I also was a bit mushy with the clutch and I think I burnt it a little (which I usually know better, but I am a little out of practice).

Afterwards, we noticed some oil on the ground just past where this took place and looked under the vehicle to see a lot of dripping oil on the transmission.

Can you all tell me what happened and how do I fix it?

BTW, this is a 2019 4 door with a manual transmission, if that is helpful.

 

[jeeeep]

How many miles? looks like the cursed oil filter housing/cooler.

Take a long zip tie or something similar and slide it down along the side of the oil filter housing like a dip stick.

If it's covered in oil when you remove it, it's the oil filter housing/cooler leaking.

The Dorman oil filter housing/cooler is what I would replace it with.

There are cheaper aluminum units on Amazon, but I wouldn't trust them.

It's not a difficult job but time consuming, the JL has some extra stuff in the way that makes it necessary to drain the coolant.

 

[bobfriesenhahn]

This is posted in the JL Wrangler topic, but indeed his profile says that he has a JKU rather than a JL.

 

[IceBerg]

IF it is your oil cooler you might as well do spark plugs while you got it half apart.

 

[cosmokenney]

This is posted in the JL Wrangler topic, but indeed his profile says that he has a JKU rather than a JL.

Last line of OP's post says: "BTW, this is a 2019 4 door with a manual transmission, if that is helpful."

 

[WJCO]

Last line of OP's post says: "BTW, this is a 2019 4 door with a manual transmission, if that is helpful."

Welcome to Bob.

 

[DirtHeadDavis]

How many miles? looks like the cursed oil filter housing/cooler.

Take a long zip tie or something similar and slide it down along the side of the oil filter housing like a dip stick.

If it's covered in oil when you remove it, it's the oil filter housing/cooler leaking.

The Dorman oil filter housing/cooler is what I would replace it with.

There are cheaper aluminum units on Amazon, but I wouldn't trust them.

It's not a difficult job but time consuming, the JL has some extra stuff in the way that makes it necessary to drain the coolant.

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Yup and yup. What he said ^