So it's not the oil pan. Oil pan in nice and clean. There's oil on the exhaust pipe 3 feet down from the engine, and mostly the right (from the front) side of the engine and the bottom are all soaked. It wasn't particularly clean to begin with and was dripping a few drops of oil a day so I couldn't tell exactly what's going on by just oil spots.
Oil lines from the filter to oil cooler are dry. The upper line to the steering booster has the hose very loose. Engine mount under it has an oil puddle in it. I think that's it, but I haven't had the hose clamp to test if it is. Will go get the hose clamp tomorrow, put some oil in and see if that was where it all came out of. I have doubts because the car was dumping oil on the ground after it was parked, and that hose is not very low. So unless most of the oil was just dripping from everywhere in the engine or residual pressure in the system, I don't see how that is the only issue there.
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