my boy got 3 b16s from HMO and they all leaked oil for the first few days then from i think driveing it stopped. My swap the 4th motor leaks a little above the code stamp i don t get my license till march so i cant drive it. Do they all have new head gaskets and need to seal or what??? sugestions ...comments...???

 

Old motors are old motors you roll the dice when you buy one. No big deal you just gotta work with what you got. You can always clean the motor up real good then see if / where it's leaking, see if it's the head gasket, etc etc.


Good luck.

 

They dont have all new gaskets, thats y they are labeled Used motors. But i heard that, thats common for B16. Thats y before u put ur motor i suggest puttin all new gaskets

 

they all had jdm head gaskets. old and grimey. change em

 

cam seal maybe ?

 

its probably not the headgasket. Try a cam seal, VTEC Solenoid gaskets, and dizzy O ring before you go over board and pull the head.

 

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lol how does a headgasket get old and grimey when its squished between 2 pieces of metal?

and its probably not the HG, very common problem with the cam seal.

 

Just from my experiences with HMO, I've seen WAY more than one end up needing a headgasket before doing the swap, including the one in my own car. 9/10 of them (the ones that ARE leaking) are usually leaking from the headgasket right above the engine code stamp.

Clean everything up with some simple green or grease remover, then drive it and it'll be much easier to pinpoint the location of the leak. Might wanna check out the oil pressure sending unit as well, I've seen quite a few of them end up broken in the shipping process, and you won't know it. They can **** oil like hell, and the oil light might not ever come on...

 

if the sending unit is broken...it will turn the light on.

and ive gotten several engines from HMO, any problems he jumps on to fix.

 

its prly from the cam seal

 

I changed my head gasket on my B16 and it still did it (granted, I changed everything, not just the HG so it was worth the effort).

I finally got around to having the cam-seal all fixed up with a crap load of hondabond....and it turned out to be the VTEC solenoid.

Easy way to tell....run your fingers under the VTEC solenoid, its probably covered in oil. Mine was. At any rate, unless your talking about anything but the usual slow tickle of oil over weeks and weeks don't even worry about it. Its just an eye-sore.

 

is it actual oil or is it just black? like carbon build up...if it is just black, then i havent seen one honda motor that doesnt do that.

if its actually dripping oil, then chances are it is your cam seal or your valve cover gasket. i would just go to star or something and get a gasket kit, that way you can replace everything at once with all new gaskets.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by notstock93 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I changed my head gasket on my B16 and it still did it (granted, I changed everything, not just the HG so it was worth the effort).

I finally got around to having the cam-seal all fixed up with a crap load of hondabond....and it turned out to be the VTEC solenoid.

Easy way to tell....run your fingers under the VTEC solenoid, its probably covered in oil. Mine was. At any rate, unless your talking about anything but the usual slow tickle of oil over weeks and weeks don't even worry about it. Its just an eye-sore.</TD></TR></TABLE>

That was the problem with mine. 9 out of 10 times it is NOT the headgasket, but rather something simple like this. ^

 

not the selenoid, or cam seal, thanks but checked. It only starts leaking after i shut my car off not during running and its fresh oil, one day i put 70 miles on it all day no leaks shut it down 5 min l8r leaking

 

When I bought my B16 from HMO I had already budgeted 500$ extra to fix the **** that is GOING to be wrong with it. My block was in great shape but the valve guides in the head were way out of spec and needed to be replaced. I should have changed out my LMA's while I was at it but didn't have the info on them way back then.

 

If the sending unit is broken in such a way that it loses its connection with the single wire that connects with it (i.e. cracked internally) the light will NOT come on. I've had this happen on two seperate occasions with two completely different engines.

As for the headgasket in reply to ITR981002, I stated that 9 out of ten times (with my personal experience) when the headgasket IS leaking, its coming from the spot I mentioned. Not that 9 out of 10 times theres an oil leak, its from the headgasket...I thought I worded that so it could be easily understood.

 

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As for the headgasket in reply to ITR981002, I stated that 9 out of ten times (with my personal experience) when the headgasket IS leaking, its coming from the spot I mentioned. Not that 9 out of 10 times theres an oil leak, its from the headgasket...I thought I worded that so it could be easily understood.</TD></TR></TABLE>

And 10 out of 10 times when the dizzy, Vtec solenoid, or cam seal are leaking it shows up in the same location. Your 100% correct, honda HG tend to also show their symptoms in that corner also. It makes it hard to diagnose. I was so sure that I was wasting money when I changed all of the 3 mentioned seals/gaskets. I was sure it was the HG. It wasn't. I even "checked" the seals, couldn't find where they were leaking. Its not enough to check them, change them before you determine its the HG. That's just my .02, i've been in the same boat.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ITR981002 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">And 10 out of 10 times when the dizzy, Vtec solenoid, or cam seal are leaking it shows up in the same location. Your 100% correct, honda HG tend to also show their symptoms in that corner also. It makes it hard to diagnose. I was so sure that I was wasting money when I changed all of the 3 mentioned seals/gaskets. I was sure it was the HG. It wasn't. I even "checked" the seals, couldn't find where they were leaking. Its not enough to check them, change them before you determine its the HG. That's just my .02, i've been in the same boat.</TD></TR></TABLE>


This man knows his ****! I thought is was the head gasket too. But then I replaced the cam seal and the vtec solenoid gasket. Fixed my leak 100%!! Don't waste your money, replace the cheap small stuff first.