91camaroeater

anybody ever have a cracked timing chain cover? reason being that im getting having oil puddle up in the valley on both sides of the cover. i checked and replaced dist o-ring seal and im stilling getting the oil up there. what is the best replacement for this, and gasker?

mjr46

you need to clean all the oil off and watch and wait for it to leak and trace it to the source....however my guess is it's the lower intake gasket that's leaking at the corners of the front end seals on the lower intake

91camaroeater

just did that, looks like its coming from the gasket, thereis no oil flowing down from the intake. it has a paper style gasket on it. i thought it was the dist o-ring but i just changed that. anyone think it could be the gasket?

83gtragtop

Sounds like thats what it is, if your sure its not the front of the intake because that was my first thought.

cleanfitty

I guess oil can puddle up on that cover through the gasket, but coolant is more likely if that gasket is bad. It took me about 9 hrs to change that gasket... [:@]

91camaroeater

thats sounds like fun. im 95% sure its coming through the gasket. cleaned it up again and let it run and slowly the valley filled with oil. nothing coming down,just coming up. fu**** pissed. now i got to ripe the **** back apart and fix it. man

stanguy306

If you have to remove the timing cover to change that gasket you may want to do a cam swap you'll be half way there.....if yours is stock!

robert.j.delgado

Hey man listen up if it is the gasket no problem but your still gonna have to replace all the gaskets for the timing chain cover. Get the gasket set from Autozone, Oreilly or wherever. You might want to get a new timing chain and spockets while your at it. That said you could change the cam but if your still using the stock heads just wait .

91camaroeater

the problem is in the oring for the dist i just replaced. im going to put another one in. thought it might be the gasket from the timing cover but that doesnt leak at all, i cleaned it big time and the oil is cover over the dist seat. so i know that is it for sure.
the car has e303 cam,edlebrock timing chain and gears, trickflow upper,lower,heads. so i dont have to worry about that.
thanks for the info though.