Dude that fuckin sucks. I may not know much about cars but oil leaking from the block, not good.

Very true. Mine was leaking as well. two long day and all the things below the engine needed to be taken off to find the problem. 2 long days

At least your car was salvageable yes? Mine, I had a pos 85 honda civic and three days after I got it insured the bloody thing has a wiring problem and caught the engine aflame. Warped the block, consumed all tubing and wires. Thankfully no one was hurt and it happened right in front of the fire dept ^^;

Well my engine didn't start yet. ^^;

Run it in the driveway until the enguine warms up, then watch for leaks while it's still running. It an area looks suspicious but you can't see much, put a clean piece of paper in front of it for a few minutes and have someone rev the engine. If there is a small leak, the increase in oil pressure due to higher RPMs will cause the oil to spray onto the paper, showing you where your problem is. Pray it's a gasket, and not a head or block.

Also, when checking for oil leaks from a hot engine, safety glasses are slightly important.

Is it leaking from the block, or the valve cover?

Cause that's a bitch to replace the gasket on those things.

oh man hopefully its just the valve cover like it appears to me in this pic

wait a sec... what is that rubber plug in the valve cover? is that a vac cap?

you and me both

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3081010 this happened today to me

quick question. What is that... Thing you blocked off with a cap? On the valve cover, a little to the left of and below the oil cap.

Is that supposed to be a breather? PCV?

If that were the case, that would very easily account for your oil everywhere.

I'm not overly familiar with the miata motor, so I don't recognize what that is you blocked off.

Shit, you too man? My bitch's leaked oil since I had a second engine dropped in about five years ago; after going over it four or five times my mechanics found there's a tiny little crack in the block. She needs an ignition module right now so she's off the road until I save the cash to get her done, but I'm tempted to just save up the extra $500 and get a third engine in there so I don't have to deal with the leak anymore.

Of course, DESPITE my EXPLAINING to a second mechanic that there's a crack in it, he went ahead and redid the head gasket and everything else under the sun... $1000 later (OUCH) and it still leaks. Moral: don't bring your goddamn car to Goodyear even if it IS an emergency.

M50 it.

That sucks.

My Ford Laser has leaked a bit of oil from the valve cover ever since I got it.

Laser's are interesting cars :3 Yeah.. I finally got it taken care of, but now the Miata is getting parted out.

Yeah, it’s a base spec 1.3litre 1989 Laser L. I didn’t even have a radio when I got it. Apart from the oil leak it’s immaculate. We replaced its valve cover gasket a while back, it stopped leaking for about five days then started again.

Miatas are cool I see them frequently around here, they’re badged as MX5s here.

Oy, no bueno...