Nice picture. Can you post some more, showing the area around the oil leak? The most important points are that the smoke is not coming from either the clutch or the inside of the engine, either of which would have meant a sizable repair job, and at Honda prices for parts, an expensive one.
1. You have previously reported an oil leak from the front crankshaft seal. Is the one you have just described the only leak, or are there two leaks?
2. We need to see the source of the leak in clear, close-up pictures so it can be compared with the engine workshop manual to work out what is going on. The usual source of oil leaks in a high-quality engine like that one is the oil filter, but it is on the opposite side of the engine from the exhaust, so that wouldn't make much sense. I am in the dark until I can look at pictures that show the whole thing in nauseating detail.
3. Once we know the path of the leaked oil, we need to find the combustion source. It may be spraying or running onto the exhaust pipe/muffler in a direction that does not hit the heat shield before hitting the hot pipe.
It is well worth understanding the problem before trying to fix it. If we can establish what is leaking, and how the leaked oil is being combusted, we can talk about fixing the leak once, knowing that the problem will then go away. That engine is hard enough to work on to make it no fun to pull it out and put it back in repeatedly, while chasing a single fault..
Last edited by grumpy; 08/06/13 06:05 AM. Reason: Test
