need help, oil leak

Green&GoldGT

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I discovered a puddle of what I thought was coolant underneath the manifold a few months ago. I tried to get some opinions from steen racing and another guy that used to work at a stang shop, but everyone just assumed it was coolant. So I bought a new PI manifold and I got the manifold off and that puddle happened to be oil. Not just a little oil, but a puddle, it took about three bundles of paper towels to get most of it out. I asked Mustang Depot and they said it was a valve cover gasket, which were replaced during the cam swap, or the head gasket. Oil isn't milky.

Could oil be weeping out of the head gasket? Ford has a TSB for this. I'm going to go ahead and replace the valve cover gasket and PCV valve. It seems to be coming from the drivers side from the back. I also had coolant in the back driver's side spark plug hole. I can't look at it until tomorrow since it's in my grandparents' shop.

Car has about 45k miles. Any opinions??
 
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