RCinNC
Well-Known Member
I may have replaced them on the first valve check, but I think I skipped it on the second and I definitely skipped in on the third. This time around it was almost 50 bucks for just those six pieces.
It probably is just a bad or unseated gasket; I can't find anything obvious that caused the leak. I know that the gasket was still doing it's job 10 months and 6200 miles after it was installed, because that's the last time I changed the spark plugs and all was well then. Like I said earlier, a gasket is leak-free, right up until it isn't.
One thing I found weird, and that made me think there might be an underlying problem, is that three out of four tube seals are leaking, but not the fourth. Even though they're connected by runners on the gasket, they're still really four individual pieces. Having three of them start leaking individually just made me wonder. And the fact that a second leak appeared later at the front of the engine, after I discovered oil in the plug wells, that was bad enough to leave drops of oil on the floor made me really wonder.
Off to the shop tomorrow to get something scheduled.
It probably is just a bad or unseated gasket; I can't find anything obvious that caused the leak. I know that the gasket was still doing it's job 10 months and 6200 miles after it was installed, because that's the last time I changed the spark plugs and all was well then. Like I said earlier, a gasket is leak-free, right up until it isn't.
One thing I found weird, and that made me think there might be an underlying problem, is that three out of four tube seals are leaking, but not the fourth. Even though they're connected by runners on the gasket, they're still really four individual pieces. Having three of them start leaking individually just made me wonder. And the fact that a second leak appeared later at the front of the engine, after I discovered oil in the plug wells, that was bad enough to leave drops of oil on the floor made me really wonder.
Off to the shop tomorrow to get something scheduled.