Oil puddles found the next morning. REMEMBER THE PCV, FOLKS!!!


The next few views are more of oil puddles

Thats how much oil the PCV allowed into the LIM, and thus the combustion chambers


I pulled my finger out of the oil some to show the "watermark"

Cool, I managed to stay out of all of the pics. :p

did you use the new aluminum LIM gaskets by any chance ?? and holy massive pictures

yeah, all gaskets were purchased through Chevy, and the UIM gasket is the one that came from ZZP. it's an in-house gasket that was modified to accomodate the HV3. The GM gasket has a bracket that holds the PCV tube. with the HV3, that tube is no longer used. If wanted, I can take a pic of my old UIM, gasket, and the UIM gasket set from GM.

John had warned me about the size of the pics, but I figure someone out there might need the detail afforded such huge pics. That and I really dont wanna resize in the first place.

lol just change the upload size in photobucket rick.

What do you mean?

When I upload them, I always have to go through pic by pic and edit them down to size. No big deal for a couple pics, but it can get time consuming.

You can reduce the size before uploading to your photobucket album, on their site.

Looks like you guys had fun!

Yes you can change the "upload size" in your settings I belive it is so that way you dont have to worry about uploading massive pics again :-p

you can also post clickable thumbnails.

wow, what a mess!

Size was necessary to highlight and magnify the fine details on the bees.

Just out of curiosity, You didn't do the valve cover gaskets too? It's hard to tell from those pictures whether yours were leaking, but if you're gonna go that far, it would seem worth it to pay the extra $10 for those and do them.

In any case, I plan on doing this same project either this weekend or next. Thanks for the pics/ info

Those were done while I was still in New Mexico. What I hadnt gotten around to before was the LIM and O-rings.

If you need instant advice, PM me and I'll give you my cell number.

See what's left of the bees? THAT's what happens to anything that bugs my car too much. My car is a natural born killer. She's a bad (*^%%$#&^&)$ like that.

Bee mush is the new engine lubricant.

All the Hondas use it. Some side effects may be: decreased acceleration, leakage, strange bodily noises emanating from rear region, inflated ego, distorted sense of reality, and inability to judge speed and/or distance.