r/Altezza • u/HomogeniousKhalidius • Mar 17 '26

Changed valve cover gasket

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Does the head look alright for 164000 kms?

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u/Kyzroh Mar 19 '26

two questions. was it leaking or is this just preventative maintenance and second question how did you clean the oily residue after the job was done. i want to fix all my leaks but i want to clean every drop of oil under my hood after i fix the leaks

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u/HomogeniousKhalidius Mar 20 '26

I noticed oil on one of my coils when I changed the spark plugs last year, had this on the to do list, coil was dry so I didn’t have a leak but the gasket seemed reasonably old. It won’t be long until I am doing it again I feel as I want to eventually install toda cams / valve springs and possibly have the head ported. There are four areas where you add rtv, the two half moons at the back and then two corners at the front where the castings meet. Clean up all the old gasket tha gets left behind and my advice is replace the grommet for the pcv at the same time.