This morning my mom got up and went to take her `95 Legacy out to do errands and noticed when driving 3 miles up the road to the post office, a drip that was leaving a visible fluid line on the pavement. When she got to the post office, she noticed it was smoking pretty bad underneath the car and immediately brought it back. At that point I went outside and noticed a 3' wide puddle of oil/fluid on the driveway. I took some papertowels and soaked up some of the oil noticing that it was red color which ruled out a oil pan leak. That along with checking the engine oil showed that it was still full. So I got to noticing that the smoke was coming from the rear area of the block and I got to thinking if it was the transmission fluid. Sure enough when I checked the transmission fluid dip stick it was a little bit below L and had appearantly leaked most of the transmission fluid out.
When I looked under the car I noticed a visible dripping coming off of the exhaust (explains the smoke) to a rate of about 1 big drip every 15 seconds. I got to thinking, if this was a rear main seal, it wouldn't leak that much fluid out in a period of 12 hours. Because last night when I had her car out to go get a bite to eat, it was working fine in that no drips, no smoke, nothing was happening. Whatever happened happened between 2am last night and this morning. I called the dealership and they doubted it was the tranny pan or the rear mail seal if it was leaking that fast. They said it might be some fluid lines. Did something get tossed up under there while driving last night that severed a line??
Thoughts, ideas??