Car has blown 4 valve cover (passenger side) gaskets in the past week
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Car has blown 4 valve cover (passenger side) gaskets in the past week
My car will run fine, drive fine AC on or not, haul ***. Then just sitting there idiling/running it'll blow the valve cover gaskets clean off. Smoke and oil everywhere, loud backfire, etc.....
Why does it continue to do this?
The car does sound like it has a missfire. Pulled the plugs, and on the passenger side the 2 at the front were torched.
I thought maybe cause I dont have a breather. I started it up with out the oil cap on and as the engine runs you can see the rep of smoke as a piston would turn/make a stroke. Is it a burn't up piston/ring?
What could this be? A compression test and Leak down test are being performed as I type.
Any comments suggestions, experiences, solutions are more than appreciated. Thank you.
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Why does it continue to do this?
The car does sound like it has a missfire. Pulled the plugs, and on the passenger side the 2 at the front were torched.
I thought maybe cause I dont have a breather. I started it up with out the oil cap on and as the engine runs you can see the rep of smoke as a piston would turn/make a stroke. Is it a burn't up piston/ring?
What could this be? A compression test and Leak down test are being performed as I type.
Any comments suggestions, experiences, solutions are more than appreciated. Thank you.
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NOT good. You shouldn't have cylinder pressure under the valve cover obviously. Cracked head or bent valve would be my guess. With the rockers off the valve tips should all be at the same height....
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your rings are gone! You have a ton of blow by! time for a rebuild. Put a breather where the oil cap goes is about all you can do. but when you get on it hard i will blow all under your hood!
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What I don't understand is, why now, shouldn't it of done this 20K miles ago.
It has had very little spray put threw it. I'am not that hard on the car to begin with. Not at all to be honest.
Thank you all for your all input and comments.
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I assume you don't have a PCV system. If you are pressurizing the crankcase you have either a rare blown headgasket or bad rings. Leak down will tell you and PCV should help. The fact that you have a misfire is also a clue. When you say torched plugs what do you mean?
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I haven't seen valve cover gaskets blow out unless there was no breathing system at all, you should have some sort of breather or breathing system to allow crankcase vapors to escape. Be it stock from the valve cover to the TB, or just a K+N oil cap breather, one or the other is needed either way after you fix the engine.
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My buddy had a STS kit it had a lot of blow by. What would happen was the oil cap itself would blow off. Seeing that the vavle cover is where most oil cap are. The pressure has to go some where. Since there is not a lot of pressure on the out\side of the vavle cover due to the center bolt desgin that just so happens to be the weak point of his engine is.
Also with torched plug would led me to belive that the motor went lean first, unknown reason. Fired the rings. Then caused a lot of blow by cauing the valve covers to pop. With the ring being destoryed the engine will continue to have a blow by problem. I might be wrong it what I said, but from what was said earlier that is what it sound like to me.
See if Texas Speed has a warranty... Wish you the best of luck.
Also with torched plug would led me to belive that the motor went lean first, unknown reason. Fired the rings. Then caused a lot of blow by cauing the valve covers to pop. With the ring being destoryed the engine will continue to have a blow by problem. I might be wrong it what I said, but from what was said earlier that is what it sound like to me.
See if Texas Speed has a warranty... Wish you the best of luck.
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All could be related. I will know the exact cause of the problem with the solution of fixing and avoiding this problem from ever happening again soon enough.
Thank you to those who responded in this thread, and a huge thank you to the people who are going out of there way get my car running properly. You people know who you are.
Thanks to amazing family and friends my car will be up and running soon.
I'll give a response later as soon as I know what is excatly wrong.
Thank you all once again.
Thank you to those who responded in this thread, and a huge thank you to the people who are going out of there way get my car running properly. You people know who you are.
Thanks to amazing family and friends my car will be up and running soon.
I'll give a response later as soon as I know what is excatly wrong.
Thank you all once again.
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Keep us posted on what you find out. Were you using the n2o when something happened? I know you said you didnt use it much, did you use it and then notice these things start developing? You dont say if your using a wet or dry? Sorry for your loss but there could be some good info gained from this thread, please keep us informed.