I pulled my car out of the garage after a week of not driving it and noticed a small patch of fresh oil that had dripped onto the floor. I checked the filter and plug and they were clean -- thought maybe I hadn't put them back on right about a month ago when I did an oil change.

Then I noticed that the oil pan on the side towards the transmission had oil smeared all over it and I guess this is where it was dripping from. I'm thinking it's gotta be the oil pan gasket now... does it sound like it? How much does a new gasket run and how hard is it to install?

Thanks

 

could be the intake manifold gasket. Check the rear of the manifold on the passenger side.

 

If the intake is fine its your rear main seal.

You have to drop the tranny to get at it.

 

Yeah defenitley not the intake if it was just sitting. Like Grip said either rear main or oil pan gasket....

 

I checked it some more... the oil seems to have dripped down the oil pan and the flat, circular, black plate between the pan and the tranny... all over 1/2 of the oil pan too. Local shop gave me a $380 estimate for the oil pan gasket. I don't even want to know what the main gasket would cost!

 

I just checked the dipstick on a flat surface and on a cold engine, it's a bit above operating limit! Could this cause it to leak? Could this have damaged anything and will this go away if I drain some oil out?

 

Holy moly, $380?

 

I hope it's just because I've got too much oil! Can anyone confirm this possibility? At best, I hope it's the intake manifold gasket (would give me a reason to take it apart and throw a new cam and LT4 intake) After I parked it a while ago, I noticed a few drops a few days later... I then drove it around 20 minutes like 4 days later and noticed more drops the next day... then I just left it there. However, I can't really look behind the intake manifold that well. Any tips on doing this?

Thanks