So my valve cover seal on the lower drivers side was leaking....very slowly. I ordered the new style silicone covered seals and am waiting. So, I didn't go out to the garage all day yesterday untill like 7pm.........Holy crap!!!!!!!!!!

My floor was completely covered in oil from under the car to the garage door in a bout a 3 foot wide creek. The garage door was all that sort of stopped it, sort of.

I hate oil cooled..........my friend went to get me kitty litter while I soaked up the excess.

What? No pics?
Elliot

DAM*(&%^&*^$%&$&$&IT!!!!!!!!

You set up the containment boom and I'll go call the Coast Guard.

Sounds like its time for a Subaru conversion for you

-Tony

You need to check the surface of your valve covers when you take them back off and check them on a level surface and make sure they aren't warped.
Man, with all that oel and petrol in your garage, I hope you've got a fire extinguisher handy and have your car insured in case it goes "POOF"!

Good luck,
Don

i saw this on a movie....

"if YOU build it......... it will leak"


LOL

Should have done a big T4.....

(ducking for cover)

Mine were warped....used 400 grit sand paper on a glass brick.....took a bit but it's flatter than the plains of Kansas.....

flatter than the chest of...... ________

......yer first girlfriend....

Exxon Valdese has nothing over you. Warped?

Sorry Mike.

Tell Noel hello...

she popped

Holly crap, oil is also radio active once run throught your engine for a while. Do not have sex on your shop floor! I can sell ya a lead cladded pair of gotchies if ya want unless you have no offspring in your futur.

Just post a tetrogenic environment sign in front of your garage.

The silicone gaskets work great, dont torque them down they need very little.

Elliot -

Evil spent all his money on the six so he doesn't have a camera. Maybe once he gets that Dr. license he can get one and post pictures. But I'll get everyone pics when he shows up at my place.


Dr E. -

Just givin you a hard time

After he buys malpractice insurance he STILL won't be able to afford one. LOL
Elliot

Alright, alright. The pics wont be much more interesting as they will be of a sea of kitty litter on my garage floor (which the land lord touted as "very clean" before I moved in).

Are you sure that you put in a porshce engine and not a jaguar. "fill the oil and check the gas" I was wrong about WWII weekend at Reading it is next weekend (2,3,4). If you and the misses are interested, get the car running and bring it down. I see the end in near and least it is not a mystery as to what problems you have to fix.

Very clean floor......

There is only one solution, you must completely coat the floor with oil and then clean it up. That way, it looks uniform, ie no oil spot jumping out to the eye.....

Ken

What are these? I have only seen the cork and rubber gaskets. Eddy

Do a quick search on GPR's web site and you will see these.....you might not have noticed that they are for my /6, not a /4. I have not seen these for /4.

When you take a lower valve cover off a 6, the oil will slowly drain from the tank through the pump and into the engine, that's why it kept leaking long enough to make the mess. BTDT. The hot setup is to pull one side at a time and jack that side of the car up high enough that it won't even drip.
BTW, I love the red silicone gaskets.
Make sure the cam tower is clean of old gasket material, don't worry about warped whatever, doan matter. These gaskets will conform no matter how warped the covers are. Make sure the gaskets are clean and dry (no sealant or anything) and only tighten them a little bit, less that 4 ft. lbs. Over-tightening will make them squish out and leak.
They will seal over and over, best money I spent on the 9-eleben (besides the turbocharger).

Holy scary leak problem. I'm suprised we don't hear of 6's burning up from that kind of oil leak. Cool info for all of us.

Actually, I didn't remove the valve cover for just that reason. I worked in the garage for like 4 hours and it only pissed about a 1/2 dollar size puddle. I figured no prob....the next day I was shown to be wrong.

I didnt know the gaskets were reusable so I ordered 6....so I will be selling a set or two soon.

The pics are after I started the clean up already so they are not as bad as it was, but you asked for them so here you are.