Hey everyone I recently bought a 2001 A6 2.8 and I've ran into a problem. After driving for a little and getting the motor hot, i would stop and pop the hood and notice on the right front side of the car close to the firewall there is oil leaking (from somewhere) directly on the exhaust manifold and creating it to smoke. I was wondering if anyone else has had this same problem from the same place? It is a 2001 A6 2.8 with 119k miles on it and unfortunately i do not know any motor maintenance that has been done to it! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Ill attach a general picture of where he smoke is coming from.

 

Valve cover gaskets , cam plugs & timing chain tensioner gaskets & seal.

 

I figured that might be the case, but I don't think it's that intense, cause its just dripping/ leaking in that one spot. I don't know I tried to take some stuff off (intake) and look in there all I see is some smoke and a little oil here and there!

 

With that age & milage they all should be done or somthing will be leaking next week.