Had oil leaking around the deck under vtech solenoid.. checked and made sure wasn't coming from distributor and the solenoid it self both were dry, car does go thru a little coolant minorly and I've noticed the oil leaking before, smokes a lil when romped on thru vtech and could recently smell something slightly burning so I figured the head gasket went.. so I pulled it and this is what I found. I had also made sure all coolant lines weren't leaking or showed any signs of being wet prior to pull too end apart obviously.



The leak.

Lighting might effect visual but its thick n brown

A little better view.

 

Along with replacing the head gasket:

1. Wipe old and new oil from engine exterior
2. Buy and install a new valve cover gasket, distributor O-ring and oil seal, and VTEC solenoid gaskets

 

yeah bought a whole new head gasket kit, however I found that an arp head stud backed out while loosening the nut and its stuck on the stud.. cleaned up the hole best I could locktiight 263 and going to try freeing up the stud nut

 

You don't need ARP head studs for an NA build... put factory bolts in instead. They are far less trouble.