Big Black Land Boat - 2010 Forester XT

[ryangreen1]

I'd be hard pressed to think it's a crank seal or cam seal. Those typically fling oil down, and you'll see the leak on the bottom of the motor where the timing cover meets the block.

I was thinking it was weird for it to be leaking from the top of the cover, that may just be where it's pooling. I'll poke around some more tomorrow and see if I can figure out if its the oil pressure sending unit.
I'm not sure what all was included in the 60k mile service I had done the same time my turbo was getting fixed and it may have had some stuff around the timing belt area done, so I asked dad to try to find the receipts at home.

i'd agree its likely a threaded sending unit that's come loose, or cracked and has some kind of access to a main oil galley.  seals leak downward and almost never that much, that suddenly.  if it was a HG you'd be seeing likely a smaller seepage and/or oil milkshake on the dipstick.  

its been a long time since i've looked at that part of an EJ57 but i think you can at least get the timing cam covers off easily enough...the center cover over the crank pulley requires pulley removal i think.  if you can look at the cam pulleys you'll know right away if the leak stems from that location.  

you might be able to get some MM'ers with wrenches to lend a hand.  if you have oil all over the timing belt you'll need to replace that as well or the oil will foul the rubber over time.

Yea nothing looks off about the oil when I checked it. I don't know if I trust myself to mess with the pullys and actually getting it back on right, so if it comes to that I'll have to take it to a shop.
I graduated from JMU last year and I'm in grad school south of Raleigh now, so unfortunately I don't have any MMers around I can recruit that actually know how to fix cars and make sure I don't screw anything up.