Last night I purchased a 1989 4runner 4x4 v6. It has 172,000 miles. I drove it before I baught it and it ran fine, so I took it home for $1000. I parked it and went inside. Later I had to get a bag I forgot inside it. I noticed a puddle under the truck. I found out it was oil, grabbed my bag, and would look at it in the morning. This morn I went out to my "new" truck started it up and started watching it. The oil pressure guage is fine, as is the temp guage. After about 3 or 4 min oil started dripping onto my driveway. Then it really started pouring. It is coming out from around the pulleys on the front of the engine, flowing down, dropping onto the brush guard, then onto the ground. Do you have any idea what could be wrong, and how much it would cost to fix. I guess on my way home from where i bought the truck the oil started bloing everywhere from the wind. There is oil down the driver side of the engine and to the right and left on the steering and wheel linkage. Any ideas?

 

front main seal would be my guess.

 

x2 probably the front main seal.

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Ouch...at least you didn't pay an arm and a leg for the truck...

 

I called the guy back and told him i wanted my money back so we swaped. I guess im back to my 91 pickup. I love that truck but the tranny shifts rough and engine runs really rough. It should be into the garage really soon.