Hi,
Looked around to the engine bay to try to listen the tapping noise this morning, then saw a nut with oil stuck around, oil looks not.got dried completely.
any ideas?

 

I see dried coolant and dust. nothing looking out of the ordinary

 

 

Thank yoU!
I cant seem to orient the pictures in relation to the throttle body...I believe that's the right side of the engine, looks like to be underneath the intake manifold..possibly the runners, maybe even the valve cover.
im thinking valve cover because oil?

 

I am sorry. I just no clue on the terminology of what I want to describe the position at the moment. yes. it is on the right side of the engine, same side of the throttle body. what you describe for the position is correct.
is that gonna be the easy fix or

 

i'll have to go home and look at my car to verify. Can you reach in there to tighten up the bolt, if loose?

 

underneath the area of red rectangle

 

Thanks a lot. I guess with extension, it could be reachable. but no idea what that is, some spinning axle or anything, tightening up may not be the best option before knowing what that is.

 

 

~~~, did not mean axle, shaft or whatever. meant it may spin~~~

 

Took the car to the Dealership, Nashua NH, Sunnyside Acura(shame on them). incompetent from hair to toe. schedule the time to drop off the car and suppose to talk to technician at dropping(scheduled this way), got off the work 2 hours early, when arrived, sa told me techician has gone. Saturday morning, sa called me they could not find the seeping spot, I came to the shop to point that out to the technician, he checked up to the highest point and told me could be the valve cover leaking. he said if was his car, he would not fix at this point, would clean off the oily spot and monitor because it looks like very slow seeping and accumulated slowly there. to be honest, I somehow really do not trust their work (poor work on my airbag recall, rattling, scratch on the steering column underneath ) , Tech said this is only 1.5 hour work to take off the intake manifold, back valve cover and reassemble, bolts and nuts. I took his suggestion that clean off and monitor. tapping noise they could not replicate. when picked up the car, sa wanted to charge me 139.99 dollars for diagnose. I did not agree, he said we are not looking for nothing. I told him I am not paying for nothing. car is still under powertrain warranty and I have Acura care. that part is exactly under covered. they are fucking thief. Sever manager told me this time is goodwill, and will charge next time. go fuck himself.
The fucking unacceptable thing is that I checked the seeping area, the oil still there, exactly same as the picture I posted above. they did not even clean off the oil spot. the engine bay cover pushpin got snapped off. I watched him took off that piece of cover like taking off the tape. every time I visited this dealership I got a pushpin snapped off to be honest.
called them back this morning, the fucking sa just like waiting for customer's begging that fucking attitude. he asked me what do you want to do? Sunnyside Acura sucks