Oil seepage/leak?

rtovar

New Member
I drive a 2000 Civic SI with the stock B16 and it has 116k miles give or take. I went to go check my oil levels and I saw a darker shade in the middle of my valve cover by the spark plugs. Recently I have only put on a carbon spark plug cover so I don't think that would have anything to do with it because it happened a couple of weeks after putting it on. I checked the spark plugs and they don't have oil and when I have it running I can't see any leakage. Anyone have any ideas as to what this can be? Is there a possibility that it's the valve cover gasket?
 

RonJ

Banned
rtovar said:
Recently I have only put on a carbon spark plug cover so I don't think that would have anything to do with it because it happened a couple of weeks after putting it on.
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Oil is likely leaking past the spark plug tube seals and/or bolt seals in the valve cover. Replace them.
 


xile6

New Member
5+ Year Member
cleab it and wait for it to leak again.
sometimes the spark plug gasket lleaks, while other times its the valve cover bolt gasket.
either way a full valve cover gasket set should fix your problem.
 
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