Is it my Head Gasket?

[BlackAndTan]

i have an oil leak and i am scared it may be my head gasket. it is a pretty significant leak because after i drive it, it leaves a medium size pool of oil in my parking spot. i can also smell it because it is dripping onto the exhaust near the o2 sensor. i just replaced my lower spark plug seals but i don't think this had anything to do with it. here is a pic. this is the rear driver's side corner of the head. how much should this cost to fix, and what all needs to be done besides replacing the gasket? i don't think i will have the car too much longer, so i really want to know how much i should expect to pay for just a head gasket replacement.

[Slateboy]

Looks like it. Either that, or you just spilled some while filling up....but if that were the case, there'd be oil above the head gasket. That sux.

[5speedaccord]

$700-$900 labor and parts!

[mrhonda]

I seriously doubt its the head gasket. I personally have NEVER seen a CB7 leak oil from the head gasket. It looks to me like the cam seal is leaking.

[Slateboy]

Originally posted by mrhonda
I seriously doubt its the head gasket. I personally have NEVER seen a CB7 leak oil from the head gasket. It looks to me like the cam seal is leaking.

That'd be an assload of oil to make it out of the upper cover. Hell yea, pull that upper timing belt cover off and see if there's oil all over the cam and timing belt. That'd be nuts...that's a lot of oil.

[BlackAndTan]

i was actually thinking of the camseals as a possibility. i will pull the cover maybe tomorrow. i was thinking, maybe since i replaced the lower spark plugs seals, and they were leaking, that i may have diverted the oil to leak somewhere else. it had always been leaking a little in this area, but never this bad.

[mrhonda]

Originally posted by Slateboy
That'd be an assload of oil to make it out of the upper cover. Hell yea, pull that upper timing belt cover off and see if there's oil all over the cam and timing belt. That'd be nuts...that's a lot of oil.

Oh I've seen most of them leak alot MORE than that.

[Maple50175]

Yeah mine is leaking too. Around the front corner of the valve cover and the back corner on timming belt side. I try and clean it with paper towels and it always comes back.... its not comming from my valve cover its comming from somewhere else

[Maple50175]

Yeah mine is leaking too. Around the front corner of the valve cover and the back corner on timming belt side. I try and clean it with paper towels and it always comes back.... its not comming from my valve cover its comming from somewhere else

[ACCORDianate]

Sounds like a distributor O-ring to me.

[d-yup]

Also check your oil censor it can be leaking too

[alb_accord]

its either the valve cover gasket,,, cam seal,,, or the oil preasure sensor. this is what goes bad on our cb7.
but non of the above its going to cost u $700 to $900 for parts and labor. lol for $1000 u can get a complete engine work. with piston righs replacment a valve job etc. lol

[shawn.hayden]

check the cam seal first cause that looks and sounds identical to what my car did when I blew my cam seal... cost me about $400 to get it fixed but oh well

[h22sparkle]

the distributor seal is easy to replace and the camshaft seal is too is it coming from inder the distributor runnin straiht down clean it off and try to pinpoint it again.

[BlackAndTan]

it was the camseal. i pulled the valve cover and timing belt cover. the belt is very oily. i also pulled the rocker arm assembly and resealed that and sealed the camseal with liquid gasket. it actually stopped the leak. i do need to take it to the dealer to get the timing belt replaced along with the cam seal. it sucks though because i just had it done around 40k miles ago, but they didn't replace the cam seal.

p.s. is the oil sensor the small plug thingy that looks like it screws into the back of the engine above the oil filter approximately?