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oil leak around bell housing

oil leak around bell housing

Chipw

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1980 CJ7. Iron Duke 4cyl., SR4, Dana300, Dana 30 with aussie locker, AMC 20 with detroit locker and 4.88 gearing, welded and trussed axle housing, one piece axles. 33x12.5 tires
1980 CJ7 with 4 cyclinder attached to what i think is an SR4 Transmission . drives and shifts good but im leaking oil from where the engine attaches to the beel housing. their is a missing bolt(visible in picture) that i will replace before driving again but is there more i need to do to stop the leak?
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amount of oil after 2 days parked. second puddle. I assume the first couple drops are power steering fluid.
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also,
this hole on the driver side of engine block seems to be leaking oil as well. I have no idea what it is. It may just be oil from the leak around the bell housing but it seems like something was attached there at some point. Any ideas?
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The first thing I would suggest looking at would be the rear of the valve cover for anything leaking out from it.
 
If the valve cover area is dry I would suspect rear main seal.
The missing bolt is a block drain.
I'm guessing the bolt broke and the other half is in there
If that the case leave it be.
 
What weight oil do you run? How many miles on the engine?
When was the last time you cleaned the PCV valve? Is the breather filter inside the air-filter housing clean?
RMS leaks are very common.
LG
 

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