afwfjustin

As title states, yesterday at the Atlanta S2K Tech day, my club president noticed that I have some dried oil along the seams of the head, and thinks I need a new head gasket. We checked my oil, and it was 'low' but not life threatening. I use Mobil 1 with OEM filter and am at 4,500 miles since my last change, so I need to do another soon which is why it could be low. I don't have any pictures of it yet, as it's dark outside and I don't have any batteries for my digicam atm.

Any input now would be great, as to how much a new one is, which ones are available (different mm sizes that affect compression) and how feasible it would be to do myself. I just bought a hondata intake manifold too, so I'd like to do them both if it truly is the head gasket that will need changing. I'll try to get a picture up tomorrow if I can.

Love, Justin

afwfjustin

Here are some pictures of what's happening.

afwfjustin

Anyone?!?!

Slows2k

You've got some oil seeping from the front of the head gasket. It's not a pressurized oil leak, and a huge PITA to replace. I'd spray it down with some brake cleaner and watch to see how long it takes to show back up.

This has happened on other cars, and most don't go through the hassle of replacing the headgasket. The oil is coming from the timing chain case's oil return.

afwfjustin

Thanks a LOT slows. I was starting to think nobody was going to answer me

Good news to hear. I'll get it cleaned off ASAP and see how long it takes to come back, just as Joe (cyclon36) said. I just wanted another opinion.

Silver9k

ya don't bother changing that yet. I'd also do a compression, or even better leak-down test, just to do a "check" on the head gasket anyway. Much easier then straight-up replacing it.