318 LA rear main leak?

Take your camera and angle it in behind the crank flange. That surface in the picture is not the cap mating surface. Red arrow is the area you are taking a picture of, black arrow is where you should be taking a picture of and is the area that matters.

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....and that's the gap I have been talkin about. In his original picture, "it ain't right", IMO.