 Valve Cover Leak..., please help ASAP i'm stuck :( |
 Sep 25, 2007 - 10:26 PM
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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?  
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Oct 2, 2007 - 7:49 PM
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Enthusiast Joined Jun 16, '06 From Bowling Green KY Currently Offline Reputation: 7 (100%) |
yeah that was the problem... the gasket didn't want to sit right so it bulged up around one of the cams fixed now
 woop! well alltrac man the one weird noise is like a knocking sound when i idle, but i'm pretty sure its my power steering pulley since there is no belt on it for now :-/ i'm hoping thats all that is. thanks for the insight man This post has been edited by tonytutino: Oct 2, 2007 - 7:52 PM -------------------- **If you play My Brute, joing the 6gc.net clan!**
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tonytutino Valve Cover Leak... Sep 25, 2007 - 10:26 PM
LewFX take a pic for us to make sure your not missing an... Sep 25, 2007 - 10:28 PM
tonytutino pics up! Sep 25, 2007 - 10:44 PM Bitter did you pinch anything under the cover? its all ti... Sep 25, 2007 - 11:16 PM tonytutino QUOTE(Bitter @ Sep 25, 2007 - 11:16 ... Sep 25, 2007 - 11:23 PM Bitter if the gasket is the rubber type then, no, extra s... Sep 26, 2007 - 8:00 PM tonytutino yeah man i think my valve cover was a still a litt... Sep 26, 2007 - 8:57 PM shadycrew31 you need to pull out the old spark plug gaskets an... Sep 28, 2007 - 6:53 PM njccmd2002 what are the torque specs? Sep 28, 2007 - 7:13 PM shadycrew31 I cant get to them right now. You might be able to... Sep 29, 2007 - 6:33 AM alltracman78 The moment your oil light came on you should have ... Sep 29, 2007 - 8:39 PM bufferdan It pretty much sounds like the gasket didnt seal. ... Oct 1, 2007 - 8:49 AM alltracman78 I hope it's nothing big.
Could be valve tick [... Oct 2, 2007 - 9:16 PM |
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