Valve Cover Leak..., please help ASAP i'm stuck :( Options

[tonytutino]

so i tried to change my valve cover gasket today, everything went fine and i bolted it all back together...
about 5 hours later i go to drive to my sister's house and as i pull in i start smelling burning oil and my car smokes a little bit from under the hood. i figured that was just the little oil i spilled on my headers earlier. well i drive to the bank a little later and my oil light comes on, then my car starts smoking real bad. i end up back at her place, check my oil level and i'm at empty and there is a huge trail of oil from where i had driven off earlier.
under the hood i see tons of oil on my alternator, bits splattered on my valve cover and header and alllllllllllllllllllll over the place....did the seal just not set or what?




This post has been edited by tonytutino: Sep 25, 2007 - 11:15 PM

[tonytutino]

yeah man i think my valve cover was a still a little wet when i put it back on, that could be the cause of my problems. im gonna run to autozone and pick up the gasket remover and spray the rubber gasket and get the gunk off. that should help, bitter i love you lol.

one more thing: the 4 little sparkplug gaskets? that came in the box, where the hell am i supposed to put those, they dont fit under the valve cover, something is blocking them and its rusted to hell