If it leaks oil, it has oil! And it’s an effective rust preventer so as long as it’s just dripping here and there, usually no big deal.
By the way, it’s not likely head gaskets. If those fail you’ll have oil in your coolant or coolant in your oil. Either way that’s a bad day and an expensive repair with the possibility of catastrophic engine failure.
Might be valve cover gaskets which are near the head gaskets and are commonly confused. Valve cover gaskets are no big deal to replace and they don’t cause catastrophic engine failure if they leak.
Yea that’s what I meant, valve cover gaskets. I’m shade tree so I use like every term and hear so many people say so may different things. But yea, the cover gaskets. Some sides can be problematic only because of how much is connected to them, like wire harnesses, etc, it can look intimidating. Older vehicles are usually no problem, some of the newer ones, those engines are covered. Wires and connectors everywhere.
If it leaks oil, it has oil! And it’s an effective rust preventer so as long as it’s just dripping here and there, usually no big deal.
By the way, it’s not likely head gaskets. If those fail you’ll have oil in your coolant or coolant in your oil. Either way that’s a bad day and an expensive repair with the possibility of catastrophic engine failure.
Might be valve cover gaskets which are near the head gaskets and are commonly confused. Valve cover gaskets are no big deal to replace and they don’t cause catastrophic engine failure if they leak.
Yea that’s what I meant, valve cover gaskets. I’m shade tree so I use like every term and hear so many people say so may different things. But yea, the cover gaskets. Some sides can be problematic only because of how much is connected to them, like wire harnesses, etc, it can look intimidating. Older vehicles are usually no problem, some of the newer ones, those engines are covered. Wires and connectors everywhere.