i'm dying here guys! i just got the car back together after changing the headgasket, and seem to now have a problem. now i did everything by the books... torqued the head with the new sequence, set the valves, ladi la. anyway i take it for a spin and it runs and drives great, albeit loud as i had to cut the header pipe in half to get the exhaust mani off. get home and check the oil and see that i have some coolant mixed in there. could this just be some coolant that got into one of the oil passage when the head was off or do i need to take the head back off and do it all over again. is there anything else i can do?
please help because i need this car for work
tony

 

Just changed the oil,
And check, MOst probably the problem will be over,

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by superstock2 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> could this just be some coolant that got into one of the oil passage when the head was off.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Usually when you change your head gaskit, u drain the oil and put new oil and FIlter in,

 

either its that the water/coolent got mixed into ur oil or u used ur stock head bolt's (wich from wat i heard tend to strech after u reuse them) there for ur head didnt get tightend down properly

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by xx89civicracer89xx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">either its that the water/coolent got mixed into ur oil or u used ur stock head bolt's (wich from wat i heard tend to strech after u reuse them) there for ur head didnt get tightend down properly</TD></TR></TABLE>

You will be shocked to hear that, A frined of mine had used the stock headgaskit 3 times, same for the bolts,
And its still mad vtec,