Valve Cover Leak..., please help ASAP i'm stuck :( Options

[tonytutino]

so i tried to change my valve cover gasket today, everything went fine and i bolted it all back together...
about 5 hours later i go to drive to my sister's house and as i pull in i start smelling burning oil and my car smokes a little bit from under the hood. i figured that was just the little oil i spilled on my headers earlier. well i drive to the bank a little later and my oil light comes on, then my car starts smoking real bad. i end up back at her place, check my oil level and i'm at empty and there is a huge trail of oil from where i had driven off earlier.
under the hood i see tons of oil on my alternator, bits splattered on my valve cover and header and alllllllllllllllllllll over the place....did the seal just not set or what?




This post has been edited by tonytutino: Sep 25, 2007 - 11:15 PM

[shadycrew31]

you need to pull out the old spark plug gaskets and clean out the hole then put the new ones in. I haven't found an easy way to put them back so be patient and work them in enough then bolt down the valve cover.

also when bolting down your going to what to do a cross bolt pattern when you tighten the bottom left a little ways, then the top right, then top left, then bottom right, and keep doing that till its tightened down to torque specs.