Valve cover gasket leaking

[brages]

Are you getting your OEM seals from the Honda dealer, or could they be fakes? On my Honda, the seals for the spool valve are not sold separately... any available separately are aftermarket or fakes.

 

[Finklejag]

I bought all the gaskets from my local Honda dealer. The three spool valve gaskets each have different part numbers like in this pic. Pic for reference only.

 

[JHZR2]

I opened the hood to check the oil seepage and saw dried coolant all over the engine bay. Sure enough, a hole in the radiator next to the cap. I guess I will be replacing the radiator before I worry about the valve cover gasket.

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Strange that it isn’t blue. Is the correct coolant in there?

 

[JHZR2]

I picked up the car from the shop this morning, new radiator and upper and lower hoses. When I got home I opened the hood and checked out the new radiator. I noticed new oil coming from the pcv valve location. So maybe it isn’t the valve cover gasket? I decided to buy a OEM Honda pcv from the dealer. It had a louder rattle than the cheap auto parts store one I bought 3 years ago. It’s made in Japan also. I cleaned everything with brake cleaner again and will check under the hood in a week and see if the oem valve cured the problem.

How frustrating!

As I recall, the PCV has a little o-ring on it. Is yours in tact? A bit of misfit would be a big issue.

 

[Finklejag]

The coolant was blue. The o ring on the old pcv valve was there. When I originally replaced it, the guys on the forums said pay the $50 and buy the Honda OEM one. I bought the $8 one from the auto parts store instead to save money. We will see if the oem one fixes the oil seepage.

 

[Finklejag]

I been driving it for a week and the engine below the pcv valve is dry. I hope I fixed the problem with the OEM valve.