Getting prepared for head gasket or what...

[Joshua Van Tol]

Are you sure it isn't just a valve cover gasket or cam seal? Normally,
it's pretty hard for oil to fall UP onto the manifold, which says it's
probably coming from the top, i.e. the VC gasket.

On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 06:25  PM, David Templeton wrote:

> Normally, I wouldn't be too too concerned except when the oil contacts
> the
> exaust, it burns, smokes and smell.
>
> They will not even do the e-test until it is resolved.
>
> As for cleaning, I cleaned the engine bay completely whne I picked the
> car
> up and took it home. Make life a heck of a lot easier working in a
> clean
> engine bay. That is where the oil is perculating from as I can see.
> Until I
> pop the head off I will not be 110% sure
>
>
> Thanks
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JShadzi at aol.com <JShadzi at aol.com>
> To: davidt at opentext.com <davidt at opentext.com>; quattro at audifans.com
> <quattro at audifans.com>
> Sent: Tue Nov 19 18:54:31 2002
> Subject: Re: Getting prepared for head gasket or what...
>
> I'd clean the area up really good to see exaclty where the oil is
> coming
> from.  A seeping head gasket isn't the end of the world, I wouldn't be
> too
> concerned unless you had oil in your coolant or visa versa.
>
> Javad
>
>> Still in the process of getting the 5K ready and it turns out there
>> is an
>> oil leak coming from the rear of the head. My first inclination is
>> the head
>> gasket but it seems to be purculating out right by the rear most
>> exaust
>> bolt????
>>
>> I have the haynes manual for the car should I follow the procedure
>> they
>> describe or is there easier methods, like not removing certain
>> components
> to
>> do this job?
>>
>> BTW, thanks to all who responded to the basic 5K questions. I now know
> where
>> all the buttons are :-)
>>
>> Thanks
>> David Templeton
>> '85 5K wagon
>> '74 Triumph Spitfire
>> '59 Triumph TR3a
>>
>>