Weird oil appearing on my ATF hardlines bracket isolator bushings?

billssr5

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i ve been noticing what appears to be motor oil under the 2 rubber isolator bushings that are bracket attached to the side of my engine, even after numerous degreaser washing and power washing attempts to clean this oil out of them the oil seems to reappear, and its more prevalent in the hot summer months than winter although i took some pictures and its been cold out 34 degrees maybe colder at night, and heres that dang oil again, inside these 2 rubber isolators?? i actually removed one of the brackets 10mm and rag wiped the oil out of 1 of them as best i could and thought this should be the end but noooo. I always figured the oil came as a result of the 2.7l oil filter location whereas people with this engine know how the oil flies out on the engine block and other places, but i always degrease the hell out of it and even go right to the power wash and blast that area to hell, but nooo it always come back inside those isolator bushings, i inspected the lines and can see no leakage even pealed back the rubber on the bushing really didnt see no corrosion at all under there?? now the bushing closest to the passenger side seems to have a little more oil the the one towards the front almost directly under the oil gusher filter. ive always assumed its the oil change where oil gets up under the rubber isolators and appears when the engine heats up?? but ive cleaned the **** out of the with degreaser and power wash. ive checked both oil and ATF fluid levels nothing seems out of sorts there but those 2.7l dipsticks are a little wonky to read but no big fluid loss. hmmmmmm heres some pics
 

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Can really see much of anything unusual except places getting rusty.
yea definetly getting rusty although i had the frame protection recall where they put some kind of corrosion protection inside and outside of the frame, these 2nd gens are notorious rust buckets, maybe that oil in my insulators is the corrosion oil, really is strange how that oil gets in between those rubber pieces like that and it gets very prevalent in summer almost a drip sometimes, i always believed it had something to do with that oil filter when you change it sometimes the oil shoots out all over the block side and maybe some got really entrenched into those grommets really weird ive never really have been able to wash,degrease it the hell out of them, tookoff a metal bracket and those grommets have a slit length wise spread them open cleaned out the area dry next thing you know its a little wet again, only other thing maybe the friction at those bracket points has worn a hole in the ATF lines there to where its developing a hole like an abrasion in the line, that would suck since those rubber pieces should protect the lines from it, very strange, ill try a little online snooping maybe someone else had this.
 
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