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Hi Steve...or g'day. Before you pull the oil pan you might check two other things: 1. the valve rocker arm cover gasket. If you reach around to the back side of the head and run your finger across, you should not have oil on your finger. This can leak and often does. 2. the harmonic balancer seal. This is more difficult to check but if you feel at the front bottom of the camshaft gear cover there should be no oil. This can leak and often does. Please also look around where the oil pressure gauge tube connects to the engine and feel at the rear corner of the side cover of the engine (the cover for the valve lifters). The engine sits at a pronounced angle and oil runs naturally to the rear bottom of that area. If the gasket stops sealing, quite a bit of oil will run out the bottom rear corner and it will do this even when the engine isn't running (until all the oil present leaks out, that is). Good luck! We're enjoying watching "Offspring" by the way. Neat tv series we watched before and now it is on Tubi again.