Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I'm tired of searching and very frustrated and hot... (yes... I looked in the oil section, like Hunter says, oil post pop up like weeds ;-)

'94 E320 W124 car M104 with 140K miles. Head Gasket was replaced at about 100K.

I have an oil leak. It's getting pretty bad, it's pooling in the bell housing in the front access hole/cavity. When I leave -my driveway is downhill -and the car leaves a pretty good trail of it down the driveway. I originally thought it was the oil filter cover. Replaced filter/gasket.

Checked - oil level is good, between the full and add (yes, I know about the TSB about 7.0 vs 7.5). There is no oil leaking around the head gasket or under the timing belt cover. Dry as a bone. In fact, the whole engine is clean of oil, except for where it seemed to leak from the oil filter cap as mentioned.

Raised front of car, no pooling oil on bottom cover. Suspect it to be rear main seal, or question: could oil have leaked from the oil filter cap into this cavity?

Help!

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