ok. im really excited i got my truck running and stopping lol (since my other threads), well i got the oil changed 5 quarts and took a 5 hr trip and half way through it over heated, popped a new thermostat in and was fine but when at the shop he said the oil was low so added 2 quarts, so do you think that it had too much oil in it and overflowed if that is a possibility, because now i just fot back to school and am going to take it to the shop here tomorrow pending any replys to this thread because it is all over the bottom of the lower chassis and rear axel is how far it got, it had oil pressure during the 5hr trip back to school today and i went between 50-55mph

 

I'd be suspicious of the pan R&R your mechanic did. I don't know the guy, and he may be excellent, but from what I've read here he sounds like a dumass. As an ex line mechanic I can say this, who would call a customer to pick up their vehicle when something's whacking inside the pan he just had off ? Doesn't sound very professional. I know I have more pride in my work than that. I'd almost betcha a cup of coffee he pulled the pan again and didn't want to pay for new gaskets. Or the pan's loose,or over tightened or .......

There's other possibilities of course but I'd check that first.

 

well this is great it just rained overnight (which i didnt expect to happen) here and all my stuff is in the bed including my band new mig welder still in the box, but anyways its going to be a little harder to see where it is coming from since it is all going to be wet now, but what i did notice i think that it was coming from above the oil filter of what i saw at 12 lat night with a flashlight im not sure if that tid bit helps ya out at all, thanks so much- nick

 

check your valve covers and your oil sending unit then to see if its leaking gaskets could be either bad or loose for the valve covers and i'm gonna have to agree with lugnuts check your pan either the gaskets fell in or just loose or worst case there is no gasket

 

can it damage anything being overfilled?

 

yea you sure can.

they call the mian problem "air in the oil" because you actually whip air into it. normally the oil is below the moving parts and it sorta gets poured on them by a pump system i guess. but when, say for example, the crankshaft is touching the oil with each rotation it beats air into it. So then the oil pump is trying to pump oil but cant because its full of air. this causes damage from low oil pressure and also heat (since oil carries some of it away)

when you have other parts submerged into the oil it creates mechanical drag. Like jumping out of a speeding boat into water, the spinning/moving parts of parts greatly increases the resistance when splashing directly into a puddle of oil. BOOM!

but hopefully all of your seals just go. My uncle is schizoprenic and when my grandfather died he "took care" of grandpas car for my grandmother. He was pouring oil into this poor buick everyday and starting it as well. I think after 7 or so quarts it bent some lifters, eventually most of the seals gave. nothing horrendous though.

 

what lugnutz says wouldnt surprise me either, though.

if possible spray the area clean and see if the oil builds back up after a day of driving. Maybe your mechanic is just a messy guy, maybe he dropped the pan and decided that a little extra torque would make up for compressing the gasket on 2 seperate occasions (it wont)

 

You mention it looks as if it is comming from above the oil filter. Did this same mechanic do an oil change on your truck? Another thing to take a look at while your under the truck checking pan gaskets is see if somehow he may have missed the old gasket from the filter and run the new one up on the old gasket.

 

looks like its coming from the back of the left valve cover, i think then it got overfilled it must have found its way out there but now it doesnt leak, and i just checked the level and just above low so im going to add a quart and she should be good

 

oil out of the valve covers on these is actually common. that doesnt mean dont fix it. i just mean it happens. new gaskets are like 20 bucks. its an afternoons work and you could clean and paint the covers all pretty. torque specs are in chiltons