if i am not mistaken, there is a drip hole in the housing that holds the bearing, if this hole gets clogged then the oil will not be able to run back into the housing but leak out the front.
thank you kind sir, this i will look into. God bless, eric
For some reason I haven't been able to log on to this site until today after many tries so my response is not timely. I have had good luck replacing the outer bearing on thirties and sixties with a sealed bearing thus eliminating the oil that usually seeps out around the fan shaft. RT