Hello All,
Over the weekend I changed the Valve Cover gasket on my Saturn 1999 Saturn SL1 as it was starting to leak pretty badly.. What I found.. I was not thrilled with to say the least.. I have included the pictures below.
I have had the car since 112k miles, Since I have had it I have been running 3k oil changes with valvoline maxlife primarily.
To me it looks like some cleaning has already started to take place, and at least the timing chain looks ok... I plan to cut the oil filter open next change to see whats ending up in it.
Can you make any suggestions about how to go forward?
Over the weekend I changed the Valve Cover gasket on my Saturn 1999 Saturn SL1 as it was starting to leak pretty badly.. What I found.. I was not thrilled with to say the least.. I have included the pictures below.
I have had the car since 112k miles, Since I have had it I have been running 3k oil changes with valvoline maxlife primarily.
To me it looks like some cleaning has already started to take place, and at least the timing chain looks ok... I plan to cut the oil filter open next change to see whats ending up in it.
Can you make any suggestions about how to go forward?
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