Ok, I have developed an oil leak over the winter.
Its not awful, but it's more than I'd care for. Best I can track it down to is like the timing cover/housing behind it (sorry for not knowing all proper terms)
So I took it to a shop locally to see if they knew anything I didn't. They agreed that's where it's coming from, said a new housing and timing cover set with gaskets is like $150 and they wanted 4 hours or so for replacing it. Yikes. I am not paying someone $500+ to do this, if it can be avoided.
Is this something I should be able to fix myself? I'm very mechanically inclined, but honestly don't know much about engines themselves. I am in an apartment right now with a storage unit, so it's not super convenient, but I will be moving into a house with my wife and my buddy in a month or so, so if I have to wait til then, I guess I can.
Anybody have any tips or walkthrough for doing this, or should I take it to a shop that knows what they're doing?
Also, I put on new valvecovers, and now I'm getting a lot of oil blowing out the breather cap and into the pcv hose. They mentioned a metal plate that can be mounted under the valve cover to prevent this, but I didn't know of it. Anyone know of this, or what it's called so I can check summit or jegs or fuckin Murrays or autojoke?
Thanks alot guys. I always post my technical questions here, because you guys actually know what you're talking about.
Its not awful, but it's more than I'd care for. Best I can track it down to is like the timing cover/housing behind it (sorry for not knowing all proper terms)
So I took it to a shop locally to see if they knew anything I didn't. They agreed that's where it's coming from, said a new housing and timing cover set with gaskets is like $150 and they wanted 4 hours or so for replacing it. Yikes. I am not paying someone $500+ to do this, if it can be avoided.
Is this something I should be able to fix myself? I'm very mechanically inclined, but honestly don't know much about engines themselves. I am in an apartment right now with a storage unit, so it's not super convenient, but I will be moving into a house with my wife and my buddy in a month or so, so if I have to wait til then, I guess I can.
Anybody have any tips or walkthrough for doing this, or should I take it to a shop that knows what they're doing?
Also, I put on new valvecovers, and now I'm getting a lot of oil blowing out the breather cap and into the pcv hose. They mentioned a metal plate that can be mounted under the valve cover to prevent this, but I didn't know of it. Anyone know of this, or what it's called so I can check summit or jegs or fuckin Murrays or autojoke?
Thanks alot guys. I always post my technical questions here, because you guys actually know what you're talking about.