bickering with my indy about it. he says it looks like the front crank seal from his quick observations. it's at the point now where tomorrow night he's going to replace the crank seal and said that if it's not the solution, the work is free.

i have a feeling we'll both end up doing the head gasket on a car with a brand new crank seal...

and just a disclaimer, the guy is a friend of mine and does super cheap after hours work for me, so he's not just trying to get money out of me!

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I fail to understand how oil from a front crank seal can end up on the outside head surface just below the front port of the intake manifold.

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