spender1326

I have a oil leak, I can NOT confirm if its head gasket or not. I thought the headgasket failure would burn oil? Or mix coolant and oil? Help.

Here's the situation. I have oil all over the passenger side (transmission side) of the engine bay. Oil is dripping down to the tranny and to the floor. I can't figure out what it is? BTW, it's a B18C JDM OBD1. I've changed the following

Oil Pan gasket
Rear main seal
vtec gasket
Cam Plug
dissy o-ring seal

The only thing left is valve cover gasket and head gasket. But there is a pool of oil on top of the tranny housing all the time. The only thing is last time the head came off, I didn't change the head gasket. Do you really have to change the head gasket everytime the head comes off???

HELP!!!!


Yellow circle has a pool of fresh oil all the time.


Very hard to see but where the red arrow goes theres a lot of oil built up. Looks like the dizzy is leaking or something. not sure.


another shot of the dizzy leak, again hard to see, but there is an oil stain where the blue circle is


green circle shows the oil stain on the dizzy better, purple circle has oil all over the place


better show for the tranny housing with oil


close up of the fresh oil pool

Thx for the help in advance


Modified by spender1326 at 6:03 PM 6/24/2005


Modified by spender1326 at 6:07 PM 6/24/2005

BigDaddyRich

perhaps a distributor or cam seal is leaking?

AIminiS10

Maybe it is the o-ring that is on the oil breather box (black box on the back of the block) leaking. That is the only place mine could be leaking from right now, I am going to install it tonight and see if it stops. Good luck on finding it.

RHDintegXsi

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by spender1326 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> Do you really have to change the head gasket everytime the head comes off???
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yes ..and that most likely could be your cause

loud_whispers

need a picture of it buddy.

cant guess here.. there are so many possibilities

spender1326

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by loud_whispers &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">need a picture of it buddy.

cant guess here.. there are so many possibilities</TD></TR></TABLE>

Will do tonight.

But seriously, you have to put a new head gasket everytime to take the head off??? That sucks. $50+ blown everytime! But thanks for everyone's input so far.

spender1326

Pic's up, any further input is appreciated. BTW, I'm losing about a quart every 2 tanks of gas, or 1qt/600 miles.

wreckedmyteg

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Will do tonight.

But seriously, you have to put a new head gasket everytime to take the head off??? That sucks. $50+ blown everytime! But thanks for everyone's input so far.</TD></TR></TABLE>

How often are you pulling your head?

If you don't remove the old gasket, how can you check the deck for warping?

spender1326

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by wreckedmyteg &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

How often are you pulling your head?

If you don't remove the old gasket, how can you check the deck for warping?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Not that I remove the head often. Here, what happened, I got my valve springs and retainers installed in Nov. of last year (head came off, got new gasket). In March, I got JDM ITR pistons and rings. But did not get a new head gasket. I didn't do it myself, my tuner dude did all the work. He says headgasket should be fine and that if i'm loosing that much oil, it can't be headgasket. Or at least he has never seen a headgasket cause oil lose of this magnatiude. By the way, the oil lose did not happen until I did my ITR rings and pistons. But, I have new oil pan gasket and rear main gasket.

So, question, can a bad head gasket lose that much oil 1 qt / per 600-800 miles? What else can this be?

My problem is bad, everywhere I park there's a big wet spot when I leave. SUCKS big time.

Feedback is much appreciated.

loud_whispers

If the oil is coming out that much, then there has to be some sort of drippage. Let the car run and see where it is coming out of. I can't really make out the pictures.

There wouldnt be oil on the distributor if it was a headgasket or valve cover gasket or even a cam plug at that. If im seeing the picture right, you have it all on your distributor. So as of now im leaning towards a distributor seal. May need to be replaced.

But let the car run or even drive it around the block a few times, let it warm up and look for drips.

loud_whispers

i would clean all that excess oil off of it first and then look for drips after it is all cleaned up.

NightRiderS2K

Could be the little culprit known as the cam plug. Might want to check into that. Easy fix.