The other morining (first really cold morining yet, 35) went to start my car and i heard a slap a soon as i hit the starter so i let off ... Then she started up fine I've notice a coat of oil on the pan for a while but no visual drips...
But the day after this happened i've started to see a couble drops on the ground .. (after sitting 6 or so hours) the leak seems to be coming from the oil pan gasket... but as we all know they like to travel... I cleaned the bottom of the engine yesterday and i'm going to add leak detector today(uv)...


The engine runs great no loss in power or mpg (noticable anyway)....

I just remembered i'm having trouble w/my new starter (have to bumb it somtimes) which is why I changed my old one, i'm replacing the relay before i defect my new starer out... that starter could have made the noise, hmmmm
{91 3.0 v-6 4runner 220000}

 

I started leaking badly on the last cold snap. 258,000 miles on the 3.0.

The passenger side (including starter) is soaked in oil. The bottom of the A/C compressor had the freshest oil. In my case, the source is the passenger side front cam seal.

My pan was mostly dry (except for the passenger rail)

 

This is a TRUCK website so can't help you.............

 

:pat: ^ dee da dee

All of my oil pan bolts were loose though looks like I may have that same leaky cam seal i'm going to clean that up better in the morn w/ engine cleaner and see what I got... Still need to add the uv dye...

 

Common leak areas are valve cover gaskets, front crank seal, oil cooler itself, ie o-rings, rear crank seal and P/S pump seal.