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frank frank is offline
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Yeah, lifted as high as it could go without flipping my car over. :-D. My car has been lowered so there is nothing to look at when the wheels are on the ground and I didn't want to be swimming in the pool of oil by crawling under the passenger-side. With the clean-up compleate and source of the leak identified I will be raising the passenger-side from here-on. I actually removed the engine to identify my oil leak sources which I had been previously told was in the oil-pump gasket. It was easier for me to pull, work-on, and clean the motor removed.

So, the leak is most definitely in the passenger-side rocker-box (where the rocker arms / valve adjustment is done). There is no question that I created this leak during my latest efforts. The question is how? What did I do wrong? I am not a rocket surgeon or mechanic for that matter but I am not detered.

The leak is not coming from the pushrod seals, rather the rocker box is filled with oil and leaking out the valve covers.

I suppose I need an education on pushrods to better understand how oil flows and where I could experience leaks particularly if a valve adjustment is not correctly executed.

I made three videos ti get a really good look at the pushrods and rockers but there is nothing obvious to me.
Old 09-14-2013, 08:15 PM
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