I got my GSR head rebuilt however I didnt change the valve cover gasket and the valve stem seals. This is the result.......



Can this much oil be from the Valve cover gasket or is it the valve seals? i also put new cams in.. Are there cam seals that go on the timing belt side which oil can seap through? As far as I know cam seals are on the distributer side.

 

The pic is kinda fuzzy to really see any detail, but there are cam seals on the t-belt side, behind the cam gears.

 

WTF you call that a PIC ?

 

ILL TAKE ANOTHER WHEN I GET HOME BUT CAN ALL THAT OIL COME FROM THE VALVE COVER GASKET

 

yes

 

Have you tried to see where the oil was actually coming from?

 

Could be a few things on the head, including Valve cover seal, or even VTEC solonoid, they soemtimes can leak. Need a better pic

 

if u spent money to rebuild ur head.. y wudnt u spend 20 more dollars to go buy a new gasket for the valve cover? u shuldnt half job things the 1st time.. now ur worried its sumthng else and gonna have to replace it neways jus as if u wuld have first.

 

Don't tell you me you had valve work done and still didn't replace the valve stem seals?!? They're very very cheap! Anyways, where are the clearer pics?

 

 

Cam seal. Thats what I'm thinking.

 

yea i was thinking that tooo imma change the valve cover gasket and valve stem seals while im at it

 

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valve stem seals are inside the head and the valves go through them. the head has to be completely disassembled to replace valve stem seals and if your car isnt burning any oil and you positive this wasnt done already I might wait cause its alot more work to replace those things then what you are making it sound like.

 

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I only said that about the valve stem seals because it's generally a good idea to change those whenever you're doing valve work (i.e. removing the valves). They're super cheap and you're already doing all the same work anyways. Don't try to do them now (although you can do it without removing the valves, there's a DIY someone on here or on C-Speed but it's more complicated).

Valve cover gasket, spark plug tube gaskets, and cam seals.

 

yea the only way to change the valve stem seals without removing the head or valves is get a fitting to fit into spark plug hole and shoot compressed air into there with the compressor and the air will hold up the valves while you change the seals but this can be somewhat difficult. and yea if you are already doing head work then thats one thing but from you original post I assumed that you werent going to pull the head apart again since you already got it all put back together and my statement merly meant your oil leak is going to be either valve cover or cam seal and concentrate on those things insted