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| RE: Oil seepage out of front cover-2000 Toyota Echo HELP! | 18Relevance | 4 years ago | cb007 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Thanks for the advice. I found a small spot of oil on the left side of the valve cover today and I will have a local mechanic ( has many good reviews) look at it next week. I really baby any car I own and I like to be proactive. One question I have is if it's the valve cover gasket that's bad would that mean there may be oil in the spark plug holes? I guess you can only tell when you get the valve cover off. I will have them and the spark plug coils replaced if there is though. Is that what you would do? | |||||
| Torque specs for valve cover gaskets | 18Relevance | 4 years ago | Richard1440 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Hi, I have a 2003 Lexus es300. My valve cover gaskets are leaking. I want to change them but I don't know the torque specs for the valve cover gaskets. I looked at some other forums and their torque spec numbers were all over the place. If anyone knows the correct torque spec numbers for a 2003 Lexus es300 valve cover gaskets, please help me out. Thank You in advance | |||||
| 4.6l v8 broken timing cover debris in timing.. | 18Relevance | 4 years ago | S-stock | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Scotty, I was tightening a bolt for the idle pulley on my 08 crown vic, apparently it was too tight and now the bolt came out and broke some of the timing cover off, and it broke the inside as well, and now there is a hole straight through into the timing area and there are pieces of the cover inside the timing which now would be making knocking noises... What's the best way to fix the mount hole and and get the broken debris out of the timing cover? | |||||
| 2017 Tacoma minor timing cover oil leak | 18Relevance | 4 years ago | Johnde | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| 2017 Tacoma TRD Off Road, 3.5 V6, 4wd, Auto. 73,000 miles, owned since new. After watching videos about the tendency of the right side of the timing cover to leak, I inspected my truck and found it to be leaking a small amount from the right timing cover. There are no drips and no oil is added between changes. My question is: should I consider any oil additive to minimize or delay this leak, or is it simply watch and wait? It would have to be a pretty serious leak to justify resealing the cover. I'm a DIY mechanic for the past 54 years. I have successfully overhauled a few engines and one Asin-Warner transmission. I perform all maintenance on my vehicles. I presently have 3 Toyotas of various ages. | |||||
| Lower engine cover on Honda CRV 1.5L Turbo | 18Relevance | 4 years ago | JonnyScott | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| We will pick up our new 2022 Honda CR-V from the dealer this week. (16-year-old girl lost control of her vehicle which wrecked our 2012 Accord and used cars are SO expensive now.) QUESTION: The CR-Vs have a metal "lower engine cover" that is in the way for changing oil and transmission fluid. How important is the cover for normal, non-off-road driving? What are the negative consequences of driving without this cover??? Thanks! | |||||
| Timing cover gasket. 2005 GMC Sierra. V6 | 18Relevance | 4 years ago | jdddd | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Hi Scotty. I have a question regarding the timing cover gasket for my 2005 GMC Sierra 1500, V6 pickup. It's an automatic transmission, and it has about 175,000 miles on it. Anyway, I took the truck to a shop to get the leaky timing cover gasket replaced on it. They did the job 3 separate times, replacing the gasket and the cover, and it still continued to leak. They ultimately gave me my money back but its still leaking and there is a chirping-sqeaking noise coming from the harmonic balancer/pulley area now when the truck first starts until it warms up. My two part question is, one: Did they ruin my engine? and two: If I do the job myself this time is there something that I should do that they may not have done when they did the job 3 times? Whats the issue? Thank you for any info you might supply. Also, you are the MAN!! Your videos are always awesome and fun. You Sir, Rock. J.D. | |||||
| So my headlight washer cover was stolen... | 18Relevance | 4 years ago | sa180199 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I noticed someone snapped it from my car, mazda 3 sedan, 2016. can you tell if he also ripped the jet washer/sprayer nozzle, or just the plastic cover? anyway it looks terrible and i had to get at least the plastic cover online... got one for 15 dollars. anybody knows if its simple to install? is the plastic cover clips inside or is it complex like everything has to be...?? | |||||
| Answer to: Tacoma Timing Chain Cover Gasket Leaking | 18Relevance | 4 years ago | Doc | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| You need to find the source of the leak. It could be the cover gasket, a valve cover gasket of the front mail seal. If it is the cover gasket, remember when you replace the main seal in the cover to either get a new harmonic balancer or get a balancer repair sleeve to compensate for the groove that gets worn into the balancer shaft. | |||||
| RE: Valve cover gasket replacement gone wrong | 18Relevance | 4 years ago | OLD GUYS RULE | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Sorry to hear you're having trouble. This morning I asked the following question: Does anyone know any good tricks to remove a broken off valve cover bolt, preferably without removing the valve cover. It broke while tightening after replacing the gasket? Scotty Kilmer's answer was: Well if you have room you drill out the old one and then retap it with a tap and die but that's not that easy working with the valve cover on. I hope that is some help. | |||||
| Odyssey Won't Run After Valve Cover Gasket Replacement | 18Relevance | 5 years ago | gkfische | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| HELP! So I followed Eric the Car Guy's video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeddYKKorsY) for doing my front valve cover on my 04 Honda Odyssey (278K). I replaced the gasket, cleaned up the intake manifold cover since there was heavy carbon buildup, and reassembled everything. Time-consuming, but no problem. I went to start the engine and it struggled to turnover. It did, but not well. I got it to start once and the engine was not right – it almost sounded as if only half the pistons were firing. I double-checked the ignition coils and connectors to ensure they were on – no issue. What did I do wrong? Where should I be looking for a mistake? Unfortunately, no engine codes were triggered to give me an indication of what it might be. Quick Bump/Additional Info: The Intake Manifold cover on the 04 Odyssey also has EGR passages. I was specifically cleaning those out due to the carbon buildup | |||||
| Recommendations for Large Car Cover | 18Relevance | 5 years ago | Justin Shepherd | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I was wondering if anybody has any recommendations for a large car cover. I'm going to put one on my '79 Pontiac Catalina for the winter and am not sure of anything that will cover a car so large. It would need to cover something that's nearly 18 feet long and 6 feet wide. | |||||
| 2008 Highlander V6, timing cover leak | 18Relevance | 5 years ago | toyotagrl | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Hi Scotty...Have a 2008 Highlander Ltd./AWD 188k miles. Have the dreaded oil leak coming from the lower section of the timing cover. To get it resealed is a HUGE job (25hrs). My friend (Toyota Sr. Mech.) said have to drop the engine to reseal the timing cover. Since the cover isn't sealed with a gasket just the factory grey rtv type sealant, wondering if using re-seal 205 would help or any other engine oil leak fix? Last oil change it lost about 1/2 quart/5k miles. Don't really want to pull the engine to fix, or can I just keep driving it and keep an eye on the oil levels? Or should I sell it? | |||||
| Answer to: Oil inside Valve Cover of Infiniti | 18Relevance | 5 years ago | R4nier | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| If it’s in the spark plug tube your problem is going to be the tube seal on the cover. Generally not serviceable separate from the cover . You may be able to get the tube seals aftermarket but they are not meant to be taken out of the cover so I would recommend to replace the valve cover | |||||
| Valve Cover Screws | 18Relevance | 5 years ago | Kaizen | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I noticed one of my valve cover screws is broken. The seal is pretty tight with the other screws. How important is the valve cover to the operation of the engine? Is it a vital component where not replacing the screw is detrimental to the engine? Or can it hang tight, and only is there to protect stuff from getting in? Btw, it seems the last person that put the valve cover on, over tightened the screw where it snapped. Half of it is stuck, in the whole, and I can’t get it out. | |||||
| Answer to: broken bolt on Valve cover | 18Relevance | 5 years ago | DontKnowler | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| A bolt broken off flush is usually not sitting tight: the force required to screw the remaining part out would normally be minimal. When I had such a problem, I (of course after removing the valve cover) degreased the area, carefully protected everything around except for the bolt itself with putty (plasticine), creating some sort of a circle dike also protecting the thread from the glue getting into the bolt hole, then glued the remaining part of the same bolt on top of the broken-off part (using excessive amounts of some epoxy glue I had available), waited overnight for the glue to settle, and then screwed the bolt out with my bare fingers. I was pleasantly surprised how easily it went out. Then I removed the putty and reinstalled the valve cover with its gasket. If I were you I would not drive around long-term with one bolt missing - I would be afraid of residual valve cover deformations due to uneven tightening, since my valve covers are fairly thin alu. | |||||