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Oil Keeps Leaking onto my Alternator. Where is leak from?

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#1 ·
Oil has been leaking for the last few months on my alternator. I however cannot exactly pinpoint where the leak is coming from.

I washed everything with engine degreases and drove a few days and its a hard leak to detect. All I know its leaking somewhere above the alternator.

Could it be the valve cover gasket ? timing belt cover gasket?

Please help.
 
#4 ·
I can be the timing cover or the valve cover. It's a pain to track down. Pull the rear valve cover and do your best to look at the timing cover to see if it's leaking from there. If it isn't or you can't tell just clean the head surface and put a new valve cover gasket in place.
 
#6 ·
Most likely going to be the rear valve cover gasket had the same issue with my 01 other issue could be the power steering lines if its running down the line dripping on the alt. Or could be timing cover leaking(possible not likely but has happened)

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#12 ·
set of valve cover gaslets, upper intake manifold gaskets, (would recommend lowers too, but not required to fix valve cover leak), EGR valve gasket. then go to Autozone and get brake kleen and rtv for the T joints on the valve cover so they dont leak when your done.