[frank]

Cabinetmaker,

To your point, it is very strange indeed. As posted, the car was level with all 4 wheels on the ground, I poured in 4.5 quarts of oil. In the morning I found a huge puddle on the passengerside where oil had been leaking from the valve cover. It is only leaking from the passenger side.

It does have a slight lean to the passenger side after each time I take the rear wheels off the ground and lower it back to the ground. It usually push down on the driver side to get it level... I am sure there are shock replacements in my near future. I don't think it would be enough to cause the leak.

I very much want to believe that I overfilled it but I even replaced the oil sump gaskets and cleaned the screen. I changed out the oil pump gaskets as well. So all this activity pretty much removed all the places where oil collects but I could be very wrong about that. I can only guess that an overfill situation occured because the oil capacity accounts for oil throughout the motor not just what sits in the pan so the 4.5 quarts I put in went straight to the pan.. but I don't know the capacity of the pan.

In total, I collected 2 quarts of oil off my floor. 1 quart I found on the floor and in the rocker box, and a 2nd quart that I believe was lost by tilting my car the way I did when I was investigating.

My dipstick is at the lower mark indicating I need 1 quart so all the evidence thus far indicates it was overfilled. I will put 1 quart in and see if it drains out again... if it does drain out.. I will be back at square 1 trying to figure out what went wrong.