300B - I had a couple of techs check the valve cover gaskets. Both thought that the amount of oil present didn't account for the amount lost, or for the smoke in the exhaust (occasional puff of blue smoke when starting).

It's an interesting theory though. If it leaks and seeps into the spark plug area/well overnight, you'd see a puff at startup until it burns off and then nothing else.

Perhaps at highway speed, the leak increases under load and the oil drips off the engine onto the highway. Then when stopped/parked, the leaking essentially stops as well and you don't see any on the driveway.

Seems too good to be true.

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