Q: hemi 265 oil leak under intake and exhaust gasket
oldschool 265 hemi has an oil leak under the intake and exhaust that look to share a gasket which is where i think its coming from, cleaned it up and nothing for a few days but started again today, no oil coming out the exhaust, oil and coolant look fine.. should oil even be able to come out of there and any ideas what it is.
My car has 20000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.
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