I have just noticed that my car has been leaking oil on my driveway. I am pretty sure it just started happening. No sure what it is from but it is leaking around the corners where the block meets the head. I thought maybe a blown head gasket but the oil is still fine not milky or thin. Does anyone know why it would be leaking and what to do about it. Thanks.

 

It's common for the headgasket to leak in that particular location.

 

Would it need to be fixed because it leaks quite a bit of oil. If so how would I fix it.

 

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Of course you need to fix it. A loss of oil pressure during driving can cause many a bad thing. You could start with one of two things.

1. Compression test to see if you're losing compression, and a leakdown test to try to pinpoint the location.
2. Clean it all off nicely and drive it and see exactly where it's coming from. Oil is a strange thing and it can get pretty much everywhere very easily. You may think it's coming from the headgasket area when it may, in fact, be coming from the transmission.

 

Totally agree with that, you should spray your engine bay down with some engine brite or something like that, get all the oil off and start it up, let it run for a bit and try to track down the source that way because he's absolutely right, it'll blow from the front to the back, from the back to the front and so on. The first things I would look at are the cam seals and the distributor O ring, had the Dist O ring leaking on my B18A in my CRX and it's really hard to tell where it's coming from once it's been driven and the wind has been blowing the oil all over the place.

 

http://www.carpron.com/multisite/v/Upload/keepit/

this is a link to pictures of where the oil is leaking from first one is left front corner
(passengers side) the last two are of the right side under the cams. Don't know if this would help in figuring out why it is leaking. They are the bottom three pictures.




Modified by jvonb at 4:02 PM 12/3/2005

 

Also what is the compression suppose to be on a B18c1 motor.