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Do you mean the bell housing which is part of the transmission housing. if so it may pay to fit junk a yard replacement . be sure to fit a new rear crank seal, and check the clutch plate is not covered in oil.
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rear main seal usually only leaks when the car is running. though oil will slowy drip off afterwards. now the best way to tell is to remove the heat sheild that covers the flywheel and look at it and at the flywheel . is the oil only on the engine side of the cover or is it inside the cover and on the fly wheel. the rear main seal will leak into the bellhousing and on the fly wheel the oil pan gasket will leak on the front of the heat sheild.
If the car is an automatic, it will have a thin metal flex plate, rather than a regular flywheel. If the flexplate gets a crack in it, it would cause a bit of noise. See if there is an inspection plate on bottom front of transaxle. Remove the inspection cover to look at the flex plate. Turn the engine over to view the flexplate all around. Look for cracks, maybe a loose or missing mounting nut where torque converter mounts on flex plate. If you see nothing, leave the inspection cover off, and run the engine and listen closely for a problem from that area. Leaking oil, eh? Don't know if related, but while looking at the flexplate, check if motor oil is leaking out the rear main crankshaft seal. It will be fitted to the rear engine block, in front of the flex plate. Oil would be dripping off the rear of engine, or maybe collecting at bottom of bell housing, evident when inspection cover is removed.
1995 Tracker would have a timing BELT. Normal oil leak points (in order) on a Suzuki G16 engine are the distributor base (rear of motor), valve cover (top of motor), front main seal (behind lower timing belt cog) cam seal (behind the upper timing belt cog) and rear main seal. (behind the flywheel). I'd suspect the front main seal or cam seal. I use foot power to help find oil leaks.
if you mean cylinder head cover, i suggest you to look thoroughly the head cylinder cover. it may have crack or cracks that make oil leaks. magnified crack gets big when hot.
If the "metal cover" is behind the engine block and if you have a manual transmission then what is inside the cover is the flywheel which attatches to the crankshaft. There should be no oil there unless the rear main oil seal around the crank is leaking. To repair this the transmission will need to be removed along with the oil pan.
MOST TIME DUE TO HEAT AND STRESS GASKETS GET HARD OIL SOAKED BAKED AND CRACK.THEN YOUR VALVE COVERS LEAK.TIMING COVER CRANKSHAFT SEAL LEAKS.REAR MAIN OIL SEAL LEAKS.OIL PAN GASKETS LEAKS.THEN THEY HAS TO BE REPLACED.
Could be the oil pan gasket or the rear main oil seal.
Remove the torque convertor cover. ( I am assuming that your truck is an automatic) That's that thin metal cover between the engine and transmission on the bottom side.
Drive the truck around the block to warm up and the oil to start leaking.
With the engine running in neutral, emergency brake on and wheels choked for safety.
Crawl under the truck and see where exactly the leak is. Is it between the flywheel and the engine block --leaking straight down the center of the flywheel --crankshaft rear seal?Or the pan gasket? or even a oil galley plug?
Good Luck.
if oil is leaking from the the top to bottom, check the gasket below the cover that has the daewoo name and sign on on top of the engine block. it could be cracked. replace with new one without any gasket sealant just replace the original and done
OIL IS LEAKING BY VALVE GUIDES.BURNING WITH FUEL OR REAR MAIN SEAL LEAKING. CHECK AROUND FLYWHEEL AREA TO THE OIL PAN .ALSO IF FRONT CRANK TIMING COVER SEAL LEAKS IT WILL LEAK WILL CAR IN MOTION.OIL WILL LEAK ALONG THE HIGH WAY YOU WILL LOSE OIL THAT WAY.
willie05: sounds to me like you have a leaking rear main oil seal.
If the oil is dripping out at the bottom of the motor and appears to be sourced from where the back of the engine and the front of the transmission mate together, that is your problem. Sometimes if the leak has been going on for a while, the under side of the engine and transmission may be covered with oil because of the wind turbulence caused by the car in motion had been blowing it all over the under side. It may take you washing the under side if the motor off or getting it done, to spot the leak more easily.
A valve cover gasket leak will also cause oil to run dow the back of the motor. However, it usually won't get on the flywheel.
Good Luck. Let me know how things turn out.
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