head gasket leak ?

[drawson]

I appears to me that my head gaskets are leaking oil, fresh build approx 1year ago, edlebrock rpm heads , used the recommended gaskets, bolt torque, and retorque per edlebrock, I am getting oil on my starter and cannot believe the valve covers are leaking as i would have oil on my headers, but can see oil on the bottom edge of the heads, anyone experience this problem ?

 

[70aarcuda]

have u done a compression test?

oil on a LA only goes up thru the head on cam journal 2 and 4....

the rings should keep most of the oil on the cylinder walls...so no oil should be coming into the combustion chamber which would burn....

I would give a second look at the valve covers....

i got 5 set of eddy heads in use and have used 4 different types of head gasket ...never seen the heads leak oil...and then again..I have never re torqued the heads...

 

[jonnydart440]

Oil on the starter sounds like it could be from the back of the intake. What engine?? If it's a small block it could even be from the distributor gasket.

 

[nm9stheham]

Oil seepage onto the headers would burn off while running, so I would not rule out the valve cover gaskets.

 

[Woods74]

Check the oil pressure gauge outlet on the top of the engine. They can do just this!

 

[golden boy]

i have the exact same problem! Started when i put the eddie heads on . surface was clean and straight . followed FSM instructions on torque specs and procedure. cross checked info with install instructions from edlebrock. have chased this problem for a while now. resealed intake, distributor , valve covers. oil sending unit checked. had it running on a hoist. definitely sweating from back of driver side cyl head. always a drop on the starter when ever i check. had to run it for 3 min to see it sweat. spent way more time than that cleaning everything around it to diagnose.

 

[Blucuda413]

Years ago when one of my W2 heads starting leaking like that I replaced that composite gasket with a cometic of same thickness. Problem gone!!!