small oil leak mystery, I have to do additional research but thought I would put it out there Options

[mmichalik]

I picked up my 75 from the alignment shop yesterday. And as anyone in CA or the rest of the country knows, it's warm out.
I have driven the car a total of maybe 75 miles since the rebuild. Taking it easy, shaking it down, stuff like that.
Yesterday, driving home the temp gauge on the dash read a little over middle but nothing major. The car was running great, I was not pushing it because of the break in that I am doing, and after about 20 miles, the motor pissed out about a 14 of a quart of oil. It's not burning it inside the motor, we can see that. It appears to have come out somewhere else.
Like I said, it was only a 1/4 of a quart or less but it got all over the jugs and the transmission so it was smoking and it looked like it was coming from the right side of the motor.
I got the car home, and it sat for about 2 hrs, then I started it up and watched the motor, while laying on the ground behind the car and to the side of the car. It ran for about 3 minutes and did not leak any oil.
I'm going to put it up on jack stands, clean it off really good and start it up and see if I can see it weeping from anywhere but I did not see anything yesterday.
Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions on where to look? It's really strange and has me a bit baffled.
Mike

[r_towle]

Was the alignment all they did?

Check the following
1) motor mounts, sadly under the fan housing...but one or more of those bolts enter the oil cavity...and yah they leak.
2) front main seal...might as well replace if you remove the fan housing
3) oil filter, and all around that bracket/housing
4) two small oil cooler seals above the oil filter....so clean really well and look for drips above the oil filter...
5) oil pressure sensor, top of engine near the distributor

From there its the main one...pushrod tubes, oil crankcase plug (maybe they jacked up the car from that point and bent or damaged the bottom plug??)

Valve cover gaskets...could have been moved or in the way for some reason.

Anything near the rear suspension bolts...coiling lines, or other aftermarket items...(think about how they jacked it up, and how they moved things to do the job of the alignment)

Rich