Toobigtofail

Hello everyone,

I recently purchased a 2wd pickup to use as a daily driver, picked it up for a steal at just $800. This is my first toyota other than my wife's Lexus. I'm a VW guy myself, I have a 2004 R32 that I've owned for a long time, it used to be my daily but I've retired her from daily duty and plan on adding a supercharger over the winter.

I've done a lot of searching through the forums over the last week or so trying to pinpoint the oil leak. I've replaced the rear output shaft seal which fixed the tranny leak but I'm not sure where to start with the leaking motor.

The only thing I've replaced so far is the valve cover gasket and half moons, which fixed that minor leak. I thought it may have been the crank shaft seal but after removing everything that needed to be removed to view it properly it didn't seem like that was the problem (could be wrong) so I haven't replaced that yet. The car didn't leak much oil when it sat for a week but since driving it over the last 2/3 days I've had to add 3 qts of oil.

I've included a few pics below if any of you could point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance.

edit: I didn't take any pictures of this but theres a ton of oil to the left and right side of the engine bay like the belt have been throwing it from side to side.

snobdds

Front main crank seal. Might as well redo timing chain while your in there, to get all the font seals too just in case.

These need to be changed out every 90,000 miles, so if you don't know the history...now would be a great time to do it. Get a new water pump too and replace those oil soaked hoses.

Here
http://www.4crawler.com/4x4/CheapTri...ingChain.shtml

Toobigtofail

Thanks very much, appreciate the advice and link