my 88 SR5 Pickup is leaking oil in the front of the engine, does not look like a crankshaft or cam seal. There is a lot of oil under the intake manifold could it leak oil from that gasket or is it a headgasket?

 

Valve cover gasket.....oil pan seal...

 

Hole in the block?

 

The semi-circular plugs on the valve cover usually leak if not perfectly installed with high temps silicone. It also could be a timing cover.

 

just put valve pan seals a few months ago. would you be able to tell if there was a hole in the block would it run bad? what do you mean by a timing cover? Its leak a little before just about a hand size puddle. the other day i went to work and at lunch i notice a big puddle, i put more oil in it started it and let it run, seem to leak more when running. look like it came right down from the crank shaft, I can really see if its leaking.

 

it seem to run fine untill coming home that day it overheated because of the radiator busted.

 

its a V6 3.0 if that helps thanks