Just changed my oil. I'm keeping my car parked until I do my valve cover gasket because there is some seepage near the vtech sloinoid. My oil was brown. Not milky looking at all. It's been 3500 miles since my last change. My car also sat for 2 months because of me getting rear ended and it being repaired. Wear my head gasket is it appears to be very very small area directly in line with the vtech sloinoid and where the seepage is from the valve cover gasket. There is probably a half inch long 2mm high area of seepage. I'm wondering if my head gasket is getting ready to go. I have no over heating. No milky oil. No crusty oil. No idle issues. No issues at all in drive ability. My coolant level is above the minimum mark on the overflow. It has been 2 years since I have flushed my radiator and I have not added any coolant since. So I can't say fir certain if its been consumed recently. Any insight would be helpful. I don't know if I'm just being over cautions. Car is a 2000 with just under 125k. I use mobile one 10-30.

 

Hopefully this works from my phone. You can see the effected area below the bolt in this picture I have taken.

 

make sure you tighten that bolt, or you will damage the engine. That is a Cam wheel bolt, it leaks when its lose and can cause significant engine damage.

 

no that is the bolt to the maintenance hole for the tct.

 

the bolt your thinking off is a little to the right and DONT TIGHTEN IT. they leak because of the o ring. replace the o ring and tq down to oem secs.

 

Someone else want to help me out? Mixed opinions in here so far.

 

Don't try and help if you don't know what you're talking about... The TCT maintenance bolt has nothing to do with his current issue. And improperly identifying parts will only further confuse the less knowledgeable people browsing the forums....

 

I read a thread from Billman saying the small part on the front (right of the bolt in my picture) is from Honda and is NOT the head gasket leaking its the timing chain case and is nothing to worry about. Would this bolt fall under this category? I wiped it clean and am keeping an eye on it to see if it returns.

 

the amount of oil is nothing. that amount on the block is about 3 drops, not even that much. just do what you have been doing. wipe it and leave it to be and if it keeps coming back very frequently as in every week, its a problem. but if its every month or two months its nothing to stress over.

https://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/569...lock-oil-leak/

this is the link you saw right? if bilman says so i will live by it. his knowledge about s2k's is unsurpassed

 

MY01 looked this way, took the TCT out and cleaned up everything around that and have nothing built back up. The amount of oil it takes to accumalate that dirt is very little. Looks worse than it is. Clean it up and leave it alone unless your noticing any real oil leaking out