oil between head and exhaust manifold?

[six-inline]

just noticed today while doing the air filter, its on #2 thinking valve seals?

 

[Jim Fulmer]

Monitor and run it!

Jim

 

[six-inline]

Monitor and run it!

Jim

for real? did a little reading, it could be a range of different things, some say the injector could be bad and its just pissing fuel. is there a oil gallery close to that cylinder? a few say it could be the head gasket.
im not seeing a abnormal oil consumption, no haze in the exhaust. no mix of oil and coolant. no excessive blow by. dont really know what to make of it.

 

[ARbowhunter7]

Monitor and run it!

Jim

x2.

 

[scat]

Seen it a lot on engines. Might use a little oil most likely a bad valve seal. Like Jim said Run it

 

[12VRoush]

Have a truck with 260k,

It's about 3x worse than, 1 & 2 cylinders. Been this way since I owned it and started turning it to 3k+. Eats about a gallon a oil change.

Run it! Jim is correct just monitor it.

-Clinton

 

[fire power]

could easily be a slobbering injector

 

[Gambler]

Some of the simplest solutions are the best...dont forget your oil cooler housing on top where the turbo oil feed line is...