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No prob, let me know if it works and yeah it's a good idea to do it yourself, it's a pain but well worth the savings. You could also try to polish your valve cover while it's off it is a long task to do it yourself but it's the best time and it looks really good when you're done. BTW there is another post with the how topolsih the valve cover somewhere around here.

i ran seafoam in my gf's civic and it never smoked. since my car only has 70k miles, ill wait to do it to mine.

well my car has 196,000 miles on it. hence the reason it smoked.

I wanna clear this up in case someone misunderstands, but i ran seafoam like i was supposed to, and it smoked up the street like i expected. It was fine for a few days, probably for more than a week, then i noticed coolant coming out of my exhaust and a slight power loss. Not sure if it was related, and if it was, my headgasket was probably not sealing right for a while, and was on its way out.
Good luck tho with replacing it, its a pretty involving job.

This post has been edited by mikew04: Jun 8, 2005 - 3:34 PM

It just determines the condition of the motor, I have 130,000 miles and did it two weeks ago and don't have a single problem.

how hard can it be to change the headgasket? just pull that bitch off, put the new one in. spray nitrous, put more seafoam, then more and more and more! bwahahaha. j/k. lol. i wouldnt try that myself, i was being sarcastic

about the seafoam...i was thinking, if it does its job, which is remove carbon buildup and varnish ect., then it is possible that the seafoam could be causing our cars to smoke.....that carbon/varnish could be what is sealing things up, like a headgasket, run seafoam, clean all that crap out and there is no more carbon to seal up cracks...just a thought...i would say to go ahead and run the seafoam earlier in the engines life (60-70,000) and again at maybe say 120,000, and again later...keep the carbon and varnish that the seafoam is designed to romove from forming at all.

I would say it's definitly a days job to replace, it shouldn't be as bad on the 7A as the 5S though.