valve cover gasket

[smoke]

Latly I have been getting this smell of burning oil.....but couldnt find it... well i did tonight.... theres oil ozing out from the driver side vlave cover.... from looking at it.. i need to have gaskets for that....the air intake... what else??

[Simon]

See if you can tighten down the screws a bit. It's not uncommon for them to come loose. Don't go overtight though, as you'll just put pinch points in the valve cover and gasket

[skulptr]

if that doesnt work, expect to be under your hood for a few hours. you'll need the gasket, might as well do them both, and the upper intake plenum gasket. its a PITA to do it, but i did it a few months back, havent had the burning oil issue since. now its just all internal

[headpeace]

How much of a PITA is replacing the valve gaskets? It looks like the biggest PITA is getting the plenum off and all related accesories. Mine are leaking pretty bad, I did realize last night that the screws holding the covers were super loose so I tightened those up, we'll see if there is an improvement, any How To's out there on this?

[skulptr]

i can give you a basic how to

 

~remove throttle cables, set aside

~remove any other wires hindering the plenum, i believe there's a few spark plug wires that need to go.

~unplug all sensors on upper intake plenum

~unbolt upper plenum, will probably require ALOT of torque, so have a breaker bar handy, i broke my finger on mine.

~remove any plugs/vaccuum lines on either cover, i believe passenger is the worst.

~remove/loosen anything that might be in the way.

~remove bolts from valve cover. do one cover at a time, but always do both in one job, just like brakes.

~remove old gasket, probably going to need a small flat head screwdriver, and lots of elbow grease. mine came out in about 100 pieces.

~put some gasket rtv in the groove BEFORE putting the new gasket into the cover, helps to adhere the gasket, and it keeps it from moving while you put the cover back on.

~reverse steps 1-6, and your done.

 

its been almost a year since i did this, and i wrote this up on pure memory, so if its a little off, i apologize.

 

the biggest problem i had, is being 5'6, i had to be on my knees on the core support, and my knees HURT afterwards. so you may try to find some padding or something that helps.