Oil sweating on the top of the engine?

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Rocktd

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I recently noticed some oil sweat on the back of engine for my 2016 Ram1500 pentastar v6. It appears to be around the fuel injector? My truck has about 44k miles and about to run out of power chain warranty. Any idea what could be the cause of it and should I be worried? Thanks!engine sweat 3.png engine sweat 2.png
 

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Is it over heating,causing it to sweat? But seriously it appears that it is your spark plug tub that may be leaking , or valve over gasket needs tightened up. Get some degreaser and clean your whole engine , it will give you a better shot at pinpointing your leak.cleaning will also give you an idea of how fast it’s leAking.
 

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I recently noticed some oil sweat on the back of engine for my 2016 Ram1500 pentastar v6. It appears to be around the fuel injector? My truck has about 44k miles and about to run out of power chain warranty. Any idea what could be the cause of it and should I be worried? Thanks!View attachment 236726 View attachment 236727

I'll just go with the obvious.

Your heater/coolant hoses that just happen to be running over the valve cover would be where I check. To me looks simply like condensation met some grease and stayed in your valve cover spark plug tube area. Just clean it and see if it comes back.
 
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Rocktd

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Is it over heating,causing it to sweat? But seriously it appears that it is your spark plug tub that may be leaking , or valve over gasket needs tightened up. Get some degreaser and clean your whole engine , it will give you a better shot at pinpointing your leak.cleaning will also give you an idea of how fast it’s leAking.
Thank you, will try that.
 
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Rocktd

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I'll just go with the obvious.

Your heater/coolant hoses that just happen to be running over the valve cover would be where I check. To me looks simply like condensation met some grease and stayed in your valve cover spark plug tube area. Just clean it and see if it comes back.
Thank you!
 
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