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b00stingsx
03-22-2005, 11:49 PM
I asked that because my oil pool was caused by excesive crankcase pressure caused by too high compression, but that's not a likely cause for most people.

Did you pull your spark plug wires and make sure you could see a ring of black gasket in each whole where the valve cover meets the head? Those gaskeets like to fall off when putting the valve cover on.

Double check for cracks, clean up the cover, and then take it for a "short" drive. That way you may be able to determine where the oil is originating from before it spreads everywhere.

alright thank you, I will try that as soon as i can. i took the boots off to clean the plug area, and one of the boots did have some oil in there, but not everything was oil-soaked, just the top portion of the spark plug hole. We did have the valve cover off to re-torque the ARPs after the break-in period of the motor.
b00stingsx
03-22-2005, 11:50 PM
so maybe one of the rings is pinched or not on there correctly...
Raptor
03-23-2005, 10:13 AM
It could be that one of them just isn't sealing correctly, that does happen on occasion. They are new gaskets.
b00stingsx
03-23-2005, 12:20 PM
so i should take of the valve cover, and put it back on again, hoping for it to seal this time?
TheBlizzard
03-23-2005, 12:31 PM
Yes.

CRAIG
Raptor
03-23-2005, 01:14 PM
Take it off, inspect the gaskets, it is possible for foreign material to get into them above or below and cause a leak. then assemble it again. if one of the well gaskets is the problem, come down and pick another one up, I have a bunch of them here. I believe the VC and well gaskets in that motor are from the topline stuff you got originally but I can't be sure, that was a while ago.
b00stingsx
03-23-2005, 02:12 PM
ok, finally got around to loooking at it more in depth, i did find a small crack on the side of the vc. so i need a different one.
TheBlizzard
03-23-2005, 02:16 PM
Sometimes there can be small cracks that you cannot see very good as well.

CRAIG
Bingo. Where was the crack? By a bolt hole?

CRAIG
b00stingsx
03-23-2005, 02:21 PM
yep, the hole in the recessed part that is closest to the timing belts. you can see it in the 2nd pic.
Swifty1638
04-03-2005, 02:19 PM
Anyone have a valve cover for me now? Cause it's now my car, and I want this fixed..

-A. Swift