Rep Power: 910

haha scared you. there wasnt a flame...but i smelled that burnt smell when i got outta my car this morning. i looked under the hood and there was faint smoke coming from around the throttle body area and above the plenum. now before i left my sis said it smelled like gas. this indicates either the smoke was coming from the coils and their fried and cant burn off the mixture completely...or the more logical reason that a fuel injector wire had shorted out and had caused the fuel injector to stay open hence my rich mixture...cuz i didnt feel any difference in performance.

any thoughts?

 
Rep Power: 1069

hard to say for sure without a tear down, but the fuel injector makes the most sense because it wasn't that long ago you had the intake off real easy way to cause a short

 
Rep Power: 910

haha! oh man was i way off. well before i left for school i looked under the car and there was fluid under the transmission...i thought it was tranny fluid and i had burned the transmission up or something. i got in and it drove and shifted fine. so i was confused. i got to school and after 2nd period i put my car on the hoist during break and saw no tranny fluid, but oil all over everything...including the exhaust. thats where the smoke came from. i looked around and realized...i readjusted the rocker arms last week and reused the gasket cuz it was in good shape...however i didnt clean the mating surface so its probably leaking because of that. so saturday i can fix it.

 
Rep Power: 902

Never reuse a gasket.

 
Rep Power: 910

yeah first mistake. it was barely used for 2 weeks but i guess it doesnt matter...then second mistake was not cleaning the mating surface.

 
Rep Power: 1069

too big a hurry

 
Rep Power: 910

not really. i had new gaskets i just decided i didnt need them. good thing i still have em

 
Rep Power: 910

dam. i changed the valve cover gaskets and its still leaking. if i over-torqued them could the valve covers be tweaked and thats causing them to leak?

 
Rep Power: 1069

that is possible

 
Rep Power: 718

Good god man....don't you have a manual? Read it if you do. All those bolts have certain specs that need to be met. Just follow along it's easy.

 
Rep Power: 910

yeah i have a book and yes i know what to torque them to. problem is on this engine a torque wrench wont fit, the engine is under the windshield cowl.\

anyway the problems fixed now.