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2025 3.6 etorque engine oil leak :(

iggination

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Hey everyone,

I started smelling a familiar oil burning smell for the past couple weeks. I'm only at 8500 miles and have been maintaining it very well. Ironically, I don't remember smelling this until shortly after getting an oil change at my RAM dealer, which was the second oil change since I bought it new.

While looking at chirping brake pads(or at least what I believe to be making that noise), I went under to see if there's oil anywhere.
Sure enough, I spotted oil :(
I've taken a photo of the oil spot I can visually see and attached it. It's hard to notice this from any other viewpoint.
The photo is taken from under the truck(so this photo is looking up at the underside of the engine), and the leak is towards the front of the engine on the passenger side. Seems to be under the head, but aabout midway up the block. I looked at the oil filter housing, but didn't see any oil around it.

There seems to be a bit of oil pooling under that bolt shown in the photo, but not sure if this is the source or it's further upstream.

I'm looking for the 3.6 etorque diagram to figure out a source of the leak, but haven't been able to even when searching here.

Anyone maybe familiar with this, or maybe can point me towards an e-torque 3.6 diagram?
 

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I've found an engine online and circled in white the part where the oil is at, along with a red circle around the bolt where it appears oil is leaking from? Kind of doesn't make sense for it to be anything other than a valve cover gasket leak. I need to really dive in because I didn't see any oil coming from there last time I looked.
 

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