ok so today i painted my vc and I got a new main seal but i didnt take the spark plug seals out i painted right over them it runs good and doesn't leak but is that bad i did that?

 

are you talking about the orings that seal the spark holes? I would just check em every once and awhile. if you pull the plug wire and there oil on it at all they arent sealing. but I cant imagine that it would matter that much.

 

no it shouldnt course any problems attal like above keep checking once in a wile

 

Well as long as its not leaking it doesnt really matter. But when you take off the valve cover, its going to break the paint lol

 

It will be fine, and there is no reason it should leak. It will probably look kind of cheap as in it was just over sprayed.

Why wouldn't you spend 5 mins and just removed the valve cover plugs, and tape off a couple spots? I just did one about a month ago when doing a head gasket job, so easy!

 

^ clever use of a rug hehe

 

ha ha, it was some junk carpet that was sitting in the back of the used civic i was doing the head gasket on LOL

Here it was all done a couple hours later

 

^ clean

 

Ok thanks a lot guys i don't have any problems but now it is leaking just a little on the front right side (looking at it) so what should i do about that?

 

that would have something to do with your actually valve cover gasket. are all the bolts torqued correctly

 

Nice red valve cover, now sand off the paint over the lettering and spray a clear over it

 

you can easily over torque those bolts , just hand tighten to tight with a socket then just a little hair more,that's all or SNAP will happen

 

I just hope JDM_Ego didn't paint the inside of the vc...

 

yup just did that last week, had to go get it extracted cuz I didnt trust myself to get it dead center lol.

 

very true. it's really not that hard to do it the right way. i've done numerous covers and i currently have 3 d-series and 3 ls valve covers of my own lol.

my red y8 cover





and my ls covers.




they've also been white, black, yellow, candy apple red, and metallic green lol.