Oil Leak, Were is it? Options

[Bigmeanbulldog55]

I've got a 94 GT with the 2.2 liter. I've got an oil leak somewere on the passanger side of the engine. I've replaced the gasket around the cam, and the value cover gasket. I know this is a normal problem for the 2.2's. My uncle said he has a lady coming in the shop with week with a Camry that is showing a leak somewere around the same place. My question is, has anyone found out what this is that leaks? I can replace gaskets one after the other, but it'd be nice to know what's there. I'm going to put some dye in it so I can see the leak under a black light. So if no one can tell me were it's at, I'll be back to post and tell everyone else were it's at. If this is as common as I think it is, everyone should know.

Also. I know there's something that always breaks on the ingition system that's commonly misdiagnoesed on these 2.2's. I'll ask my uncle what that is. If the modderates won't put up a Common Problems forum, I'll try to start my own.

[SL44]

While looking for the same oil leak (pass side, rear of engine/left side of engine when facing the timing belt), it looks like the leak is indeed coming from the oil pump gasket. I already did the crank and oil pump shaft seal while changing the timing belt and water pump. The cam shaft seal looks wet and I'll probably change that too. The driver side is wet with oil too, it looks like the distributor seal so I'll go for that too.

After I got it all back together, it does not run well, have to open the accelerator to keep it running. Thought I may have got the new timing belt wrong. I took off the timing covers and put the mount back together so I could run the engine and look for the leak. The timing marks are dead on so I'll be looking for a vacuum hose and elect connectors I may have disloged during the initial operation. When it ran a few minutes, the new spark plugs got carbon deposits and the oil leak continued.

This is my first post; I have a 94 GT liftback. It has 249K+ miles, runs pretty good with no mods, does not seem to burn oil, just the leak that the old lady complains about messing up the garage floor. I sincerely expect it to get past 300k; I have not seen any cars out there I would consider as a replacement.

This original post is 1½ years old; did that leak stop with an oil pump gasket replacement?