wigglesrewind
Registered User
so my 92 bird is burning a decent amount of oil out from under the hood, never noticed this before. just found it a few days ago after i changed my oil, noticed that the back corner(near the firewall) valve cover bolt had worked its way all the way out so i tightened it back down but its still leaking. how long do you think it would take to burn off all excess oil if i stopped the leak. i only ran the car for 5 minutes after i fixed the bolt and it sat for a good 2 days between when i changed my oil and when i fixed the bolt. had to work and next couldnt get out there to fix it.
anyways how much driving do you think it would take to burn off all the oil if i fixed the leak? a day? a week? i really dont want to do valve cover gaskets on this thing because it seems like a pain and im worried if i start removing intake parts that now matter how careful i am im not going to be building any boost when i get it back together.
anyways if i do have to do valve cover gaskets has anyone done a write up on it? my haynes manual describes doing a 3.8 NA which is pretty different. im kinda in a quandry because i dont really want to do this, but the car has almost 170k on it so it may be time, but from what i know the previous previous owner did the headgaskets like 20k miles ago so theres a good chance the valve cover gaskets got changed too.
thanks for listening guys i really appreciate any of your input. i love this site almost as much as i love my bird.
anyways how much driving do you think it would take to burn off all the oil if i fixed the leak? a day? a week? i really dont want to do valve cover gaskets on this thing because it seems like a pain and im worried if i start removing intake parts that now matter how careful i am im not going to be building any boost when i get it back together.
anyways if i do have to do valve cover gaskets has anyone done a write up on it? my haynes manual describes doing a 3.8 NA which is pretty different. im kinda in a quandry because i dont really want to do this, but the car has almost 170k on it so it may be time, but from what i know the previous previous owner did the headgaskets like 20k miles ago so theres a good chance the valve cover gaskets got changed too.
thanks for listening guys i really appreciate any of your input. i love this site almost as much as i love my bird.