A20A1 oil leak! need advice.

[Pana23]

Before I take my car to a shop I was hoping if any of yall could please tell me
if this is a repair that will cause a serious hurting to my pocket. my oil leek seems to only come
from this area right next to the engine tag, beside the header. I constantly need to be adding a
Qt of oil to my car cuz of this. and i tryed a product which is suposed to stop engine oil leeks for 6k miles,
which didnt seem to do much. I guess because i didnt use it when I changed my oil like it instructs
you too but Im going to try one more time to use this oil additive and use it when i change my oil soon.

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/6875/12210010ir.jpg

[A20A1]

Did you spray engine degreaser and clean the area and dry it...
that way you can see if it's from the head gasket
or from the valve cover
or from the distributor seal.
Those are the three usual areas it can leak from.

[smufguy]

Did you spray engine degreaser and clean the area and dry it...
that way you can see if it's from the head gasket
or from the valve cover
or from the distributor seal.
Those are the three usual areas it can leak from.

as Mike said its ur valve cover gasket or ur distributor gasket. The reason u find oil near ur tranny spy hole is because of ur distributor seal which is the 85% of chance.

[Pana23]

Thx!
well i did use the degreaser and when it got cleaned up from all the oil sediment my engine seems to leak twice as much.:thumbdn:
I hope this repair doesnt cost to much.

[smufguy]

Thx!
well i did use the degreaser and when it got cleaned up from all the oil sediment my engine seems to leak twice as much.:thumbdn:
I hope this repair doesnt cost to much.

the valve cover gasket is like 8 bux with tax and the distributor gasket (from the dealer) is like 6 bux with tax.

[Pana23]

Leak is fixed, I took my car to a friend who said he could fix it,first he degreased the engine and then he took the black top out and the distributor, then he sealed it with some kind of black silicone and thats it my car has been running leak free :) jus hopin it stays liek this for a long time.
He also adjusted my Idel time.
http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/6435/leakfix1rj.jpg

[smufguy]

even tho that selant works, its not the proper way to do it. I have used a red silicone selant to patch it up, but its not the long lasting one. Spending 5 or 6 bux on a small gasket to fix things properly is not really that hard or bad. So i suggest that you get a distributor gasket sometime in the near future (like within a month or so) and do it the right way.

and long live the carb :-D

[Pana23]

well the gasket was more like 35 bucks each for the head gasket and distributor gasket

[smufguy]

i dont know where the hell u got it or what the guy was looking at. but the distributor gasket was like $5.30 or something from the dealership.

[Pana23]

damn thats really cheap coming from the dealer, I went to Discount Auto and asked for these 2 gaskets and they said they would have to get those parts mailed in it would take a day and the total for the 2 parts was like 65 bucks. :thumbdn: