so... new found experience related to this. after gettting the car back together i had a little bit of drippage over the 2 months the car was off the road. so before i ran it i topped it off, turned it on, pulled out of the garage and spun it around so it was nose first in the garage while i ran it to burp the cooling system. so after about an hour of running idle in the garage i shut the car off and closed up shop. next day i pulled the car out and there was a good 1/2 to 3/4 of a quart on my garage floor, maybe even a little more. however i left it alone and didnt top off again. about a week later after a few more drips here and there, the stick was only slightly below what it read after i found the big puddle, so my guess on this is that since its not pouring out all the time, my leak is coming from higher up on the pan, like where the sensor is? and once it gets below that line, the light dripping is just residual oil from the xmember dropping down? does this logic make sense? and is it just a seal like grommet style thats leaking or is it bad threads? what does this thing look like when its installed? threads in pan, then grommet, then sensor?