I just got my engine started for the first time in over a year(I've owned the car since March)and here's where the spots under the car came from:

1) Oil on ground under the timing cover, look to be the corner where the oil pan and timing cover and block all come together. Isn't this common (I saw one post after a search)? Will I need a new timing cover/oil pan gasket or both?

2) Oil coming out of dipstick a little, dripping onto headers.

3) Transmission fluid dripping down some sort of hard line, I don't have a way to get the car up high enough to see where from. NOT coming from the tranny or where the engine and tranny go together.

On the bright side, the engine doesn't seem to be burning any oil because there's no smoke, weird noises, backfiring, etc coming from it. The oil and tranny fluid coming out are all clean and not burnt or blackened. I'd appreciate any solutions to at least 1 and 2 above, I just need to source the cause of #3. Thanks a lot guys!

the tranny fluid could be from the tranny line running into the radiator..

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72' Chevelle SS (Clone)
TC Member#1417

I swear I think they all eventually start to leak under that timing cover, Is this a BB or SB? Either way you should be able to take care of that dipstick leak with some silicon on the end of the tube where it goes into the block, although it probably will need a better coverage if it's a BB motor, those will spit oil there.