I topped off my oil last night that was down about 1/2 qt as it is still leaking a bit from the rear of the valley gasket. I had been using Amsoil Synthetic 10-40, and have now been topping it off with Rotella 15/40 conventional oil to see if that would slow the leak, and it had been. I started it up this afternoon, and I have a steady stream flowing under the D2. I took a closer look, and it looks like it is coming from the front of the oil pan, and on closer inspection if looks like it is coming from one of the holes in the pan lip where the line-up nipples on the pan gasket should be (based on the way the little nipples stick out from the same type of holes around the pan between the bolt heads).

I put my finger on the small hole while the engine was running, and the steady stream definitely is coming from that little hole and running down the front of the oil pan. I had it up on ramps in the below picture, so it is running back along the bottom of the pan as well. Is there any easy way to fix this without a new pan gasket? The pan gasket was just changed out 6 months ago when I had a shop do the timing cover gasket, oil pan gasket, and clean-up the oil pick-up screen.

 

First, you need to be sure that oil is coming out where you think it is
and not coming from valve covers above and just running down and dripping off at the lowest point.

You could try turning the oil pan bolts in just a tad of they are loose.

You could try to clean it up, and jam in a huge wad of permatex non-hardening - or JBweld.

It may be your front crank seal too.
but, I have never heard of one of those leaking on this engine.