Agreed. You can find out if the upper front timing cover gasket by cleaning the area under the distributor cap with brake cleaner, wiping it then watch and see if you can see oil dripping after a drive. Once it drips there -- it goes everywhere all over the engine. The gasket is a pretty easy fix -- Distributor cap + rotor off, then the chain cover and you are there. No need to remove anything else.

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