Hi all..... driving along suddenly I had smoke out the vents and then per chance looking at my oil pressure gauge/light I noticed no pressure. shutting the engine off and looking at the engine compartment I noticed oil splattered on the passsenger side. Seemed to be coming (wild guess-estimate here) from roughly mid engine... ie the side of the block was wet and the oil seemed particularly concentrated near the dip stick area.... I'm guessing my head gasket let go.... am I close?? The enge ran just fine right until I shut it off. Turned out I was just returning from the car wash where I had steam cleaned the driver side of the compartment near airfilter/block because there was a lot of oil in that area from blow back coming out of the breather tube (connecting to the air filter housing) that had broken....
Any chance the problem could be simpler than the head gasket? It is definitely not the valve cover gasket on top......
cheers, thanks for any feedback