Help Identifying an Oil Leak (1 Viewer)

[Goose17]

I just picked up a 2000 Land Cruiser as a project car. It has a big oil leak. I think it's coming from the oil pan. It looks like it coming out just below the harmonic balancer. Please let me know your thoughts. Thank you

 

[excessive]

probably a combination of front crankshaft seal and valve cover gaskets

 

[awesomeissquid]

Don’t think it’s the pan. You can see a large amount of it above the oil pan lip. Best advice is to clean it off and monitor to see where it comes from.

 

[Campfire]

2000? Project car?
How many miles on it? And has the timing belt been done lately?
Get into the front cover and look for the oil leak and the crank seal.

 

[juicemode]

If you pull the plastic inner wheel well liners you can get a good look at the exhaust manifolds and the bottom portions of the valve covers. I suspect valve cover gaskets for one.

 

[Goose17]

It's salvage from Copart with 178k, it's pretty rough. From what I can tell on CarFax and Lexus Service history, TB was done at 75k in August of '08. There is no sticker. I ordered an AISIN TB kit and an AISIN seal kit with Cam and Crankshaft seals. Once those arrive I will remove the covers.
It looked like the oil pan was leaking, but now I think it's coming from above it.