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help!!!! pushing oil out of valve covers!!!

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82CapriRS

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i have a 90 hatch, stock motor with a edelbrock intake an carb an old school moroso valve covers with pcv's on each side. no matter what i do it pushes oil out an causes a smoke show an i really dont wanna see my car go up in flames. anyone know why its doing this an what i can do to fix it???

the pcv's are brand new, with grommets and everything is nice an tight in the valve cover. when i had the stock valve covers on i had a small filter on the oil fill tube an it would push oil out of there but not much. either case i really just want a permanent fix for this. thanks in advance an hopefully you guys can help me out here
 

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I don't know what the valve covers look like on that car, but going by experience, I'd say either you are over tightening them, or they are warped from being over tightend and are probably not ever going to fit right again. But thats just an experience I had with an old Chevy...
 

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well the oil is coming out of the breather holes in both valve covers. not on the bottom of the valve cover itself. they seal onto the head fine with no leaks.
 

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82CapriRS said:
well the oil is coming out of the breather holes in both valve covers. not on the bottom of the valve cover itself. they seal onto the head fine with no leaks.
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Sorry...I guess I didn't read it your post fully. I'm at a loss then...but I'm sure someone here will come up with a few ideas.
 

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Crankcase pressure.

I would do a compression check or a Leak Down test on the cylinders.
 
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