Oil leak? Any possibilities?

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MarcoFuc

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Just wanting everyone’s input, to get a general idea where it might be coming from, make sure the shop isn’t ripping me off. So I had my lifters replaced and camshaft, oil pump, and timing chain. It got all out back together then I had to go back to the shop cause I had a oil leak on the valve covers driver and passenger then got that fixed and it stopped leaking driver side, but now I’m getting a small leak in the passenger side these are pictures best I could before dropping it off again where I found oil from.


There is a drop of oil right above the exhaust manifold on that end it’s kinda blurry phone wouldn’t focus on it.
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I would hope they installed new valve cover gaskets and such when they did the repairs.

Does the '13 have mds solenoids? perhaps there's a leak in that area (under the intake manifold). It's as high/higher than the valve covers as well. But to me that would be a pressurized leak, and you would lose oil faster than a leak at the valve cover.
 
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I would hope they installed new valve cover gaskets and such when they did the repairs.

Does the '13 have mds solenoids? perhaps there's a leak in that area (under the intake manifold). It's as high/higher than the valve covers as well. But to me that would be a pressurized leak, and you would lose oil faster than a leak at the valve cover.
They used a gasket, but they added a seal on top of it which another shop corrected and told me they should’ve of expected it to leak they should have only used the gasket.
 
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