I had the same oil seep but I looked carefully and it was from a dizzy seal :P

 

Blow-by or a bad pcv system, I had oil all over my engine bay when my pcv was plugged and when my rings bad. including the areas you described. I re-used my stock headbolts 3 times and they held 10 psi with no "headlifting"

 

Time for the dreaded compression test.
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Is this always the case?

I ask because my radiator overflow tank has been slowly filling up lately. It has been filling up about an inch a week...but my car has not overheated one time...

I'm preparing myself to do a headgasket in the near future, but my car isn't over heating so I guess it could be something else?

 

sounds like your head is lifting but the fluid should works it way down the resevoir when it's cool

 

I had the pcv hooked up for a while, that could be the problem. I have a catch can on it now. I doubt it's blow by, it was a fresh rebuild, only put 5000 kms on it since.

Stan

 

Who put the rings in?

 

A friend of mine, he's a tech at the local Honda dealership.

Stan

 

yeah you know my head starts to warp and lift at the same time because of all the power i have in the daewoo lanos. i had to make brackets to hold the head down i am at least making well over a million HP and you know how that goes.
jk
you said your honda tech friend did it what if he put smaller rings on by accendent like for a D16 or a B16 its posssible but unlikly. im just throwing it out there and you can take it or keave it or just throw it right back at me

 

You would have to be 100% mentally retarded to pull that one off.
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