Any chance that you're seeing transmission oil?  There's a seal for the
first motion shaft into the transmission and if it goes bad you can see
the same sort of leakage you describe.  I think the engine main seal is
fairly reliable, though if it's installed improperly all bets are off.

On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Joseph Tu wrote:

>  i have a problem. I have an oil leak that appears to be coming from the
> area where the tranny and engine mate. THe funny thing is the engine was
> just serviced and the seal behind the flywheel on the crankshaft was
> replaced! Will take back to place where it was fixed and have a talk.
> Otherwise, is this seal known to fail? or is it just bad installation?
>
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Tom Young               young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU
Lafayette, CA  94549    '81 Vanagon
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