head leaking oil
 

like stated, my motor is leaking oil around the dizzy area. The exaust manifold is also wet on cylinders closedt to the dizzy (1). I am just wondering if i should check anything before pulling the head?? The leak is horrible, but it gets everything wet all the way down to the motor stramp. Help woul dbe appricaited. Thanks

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check the cam seal behind the dizzy and your valve cover gasket

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check:
o-ring for the distributor.
or the seal inside distributor. (is there oil coming out of the little hole on the bottom of the dizzy? oil inside the dizzy?)

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looks as if it is coming out of the head. the exaust manifold also is wet??? wtf?

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we need more info. Is there oil in the dist? Or just from the left side by the cam seal and dizzy. Or is it ontop of the exh. mani? More info...and what motor? Was it a ls/vtec with leaky lines (just a thought). Pictures too if possible.

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The other night I had my toobig valvecover gasket pop out after I adjusted my valves, pissed oil everywhere. Like, puddle in my driveway and trail up the street for a good long while. Check your valvecover gasket, and check your distributor O-ring, those like to go too.

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at idle i couldnt see any oil coming out even with reving. But after i drove it a bit and looked, oil was leaking all over. It looks like the seam in between the head and bcok, since i saw that the exaust manifold itself was wet also, i took the head off. I looked and did not see anything wrong with the seal between the head and block. Can head gaskets be faulty?? I used cooper spray when putting the new gasket on, can that mess up the seal? what should i do to prevent a leak when i put it back on?? I will be getting another headgasket. there was also no cantamination between oil and coolant. so that means the oil must be spewing out from the oil return port? Please help. this ---- is pissing me off. Thanks.

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one dowel pin in the block is a y8 one, and the other is an a6 one. Could different dowel pins make the head leak? It looks like the y8 dowl pin near the leak is slightly taller than the a6 one.

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Try another z6 pin. Also...make sure your head is level. I think its about 30 bucks or so for a shop to test the head and a few more for them to resurface it. That would give me a piece of mind.

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put some pics!

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of the leaking??/ Well the oil comes out/down right in front of the dizzy, then leaks down onto the motor stamp and some even in the tranny area. I dont blieve the head is warped. I was told that it only had 89k and it was pulled cause the car got rear ended. I dont have any pics because i took the head back off yesterday. Could it be possible that it was just a ---- headgasket?? Also, i did my best at cleaning the bock with a wire brush before i put the new head on, but some a6 hg ---- was still embedded when i put the new hg and head on. Then when i saw it leaked and took the head back off, all the embedded ---- was on the copper spray of the hg and the block was perfectly clean. It looked as if the car leaked in the front corner of where the head meets the block and even near the first exaust manifold port. I ordered a new hg and will be trying this again;/ any recommendations so i dont get this head leak again??? Thanks

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and btw, there isnt a cam seal on the dizzy side of a d-series single cam, correct? And there was no oil coolant contamination when the oil leaked/

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You believe everything you hear, don't you?

And have you ever read a service manual? It would cut down on some of your self-proclaimed "faggot posts."

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i read the manual. And there is ways of checking the heads surface. But the way haynes shows it, isnt very exact. They just put a ruler over it basically. anyways, i made this post really to see others peoples thoughts on if it really may be warped, or poor installation?? everything was torqued down to specs and copper spray was used. I have searched on here and h-t, and this seems to be a popular spot to leak. I thought i would see what your opinions were.

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If you can't check to see if a head is warped, you're a dumbass.

It's not hard to slide a flat feeler gauge under a straight edge ::)

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i put a straight edge on it, and checked out fine.

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Whiterice was right on, or if it is a vtec head then it could be leaking from the solenoid assembly. Check the gasket there.

The only place oil crosses the headgasket in a D is in the back between cylinder 2 and 3. If it was leaking there because of a dowel pin that was too tall 3 and 4 wouldn't have any compression. The motor would run like ----. :S


All the b-series guys say the same ----. There are plenty of other places oil can leak from on the passengter side of the engine than the headgasket.

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and there is no oil or coolant mix, so does that mean it cannot even be a hg leak?

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imo could still be a hg, especially since you admitted to leaving ---- from your a6 gasket on the block

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your a ------- idiot. pull the head for an oil leak, BWAHAHA. its either the valve cover gasket or dizzy o ring. THIS IS A D SERIES PEOPLE, NOT B. i garentee you its not he head gasket, for obvious reasons. take your car to a shop you suck at working on cars.

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hahah. it has taken too long....trend is dead.

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naww. i did all the ---- right. i have read on h-t and i guess that the leak near the dizzy is very common. i replaced all gaskets and o rings and still have the leak. Yet there is no oil and coolant mix. i said ---- it. i dont care bout it, im gonna get a zc and start fresh anyways.

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That's great...go buy a new motor cause yours has an oil leak ::) O-ring on the dizzy is more than likely leaking, probably because the cam cap that the dizzy fits into wasn't tightened to specs.

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exactly!!! thats what just about everyone has been saying all along.

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the cap that the dizzy goes into was never taken off. and where oil should drip down from the dizzy is not wet. There are a few sensors there and they are dry.

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Then it has to be a valve cover gasket problem. As far as I remember, there are no oil returns or high oil pressure oil galleys on the front corner of the head where you say it's leaking from...they're in the back of the head. If it was the headgasket leaking at that corner, it would be pissing out coolant, not oil, from around the sleeves. The vcg has got to be shot. Probably old and dried up. Get a new gasket for the valve cover and try that then. I just looked at the d15b head I have laying in my garage, and there is absolutely no spot at all in front of the dizzy that it could leak from other than where the valve cover gasket covers over the last cam cap. If it's coming straight out the head wall itself, then you have a hole in the damn thing. ::)

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clean the motor and sprinkle some flour around the head and take it for a rip.
oil can leak from 2 places on the dist. the o-ring (will leak next to head) and the seal for the shaft (will leak from oil drain hole on bottom of dist).
you still have that rubber o-ring in your Oil Cap?