{"id":17850,"date":"2014-04-03T10:17:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T14:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17850"},"modified":"2014-04-03T10:17:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T14:17:28","slug":"2006-honda-civic-ex-valve-cover-gasket-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/03\/2006-honda-civic-ex-valve-cover-gasket-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"2006 Honda Civic EX Valve Cover Gasket Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/2006civicex\/IMG_7899.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Valve cover gasket removed from the 2006 Honda Civic EX so the gasket could be replaced. Taken before cleaning.\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/105923-2\/IMG_7899.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some time in mid-2013 I noticed that my car&#8217;s engine was getting a bit oily, with all of it appearing from just below the valve cover. This meant was time for a new valve cover gasket. While I&#8217;m not much of a car guy, I figured this should be a relatively easy DIY repair, and it was. By following both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chilton.cengage.com\/\">Chilton<\/a>\u00a0directions (thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/mel.org\/\">MeL<\/a>!) and some of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V1MDdldAaC8\">YouTube Video<\/a>\u00a0I had no issue with this repair. Following a test drive last night and today&#8217;s trip to work no new oil is visible on the engine, and it seems to be running properly. Out of pocket cost was $31.25 (for the gasket set and some RTV silicone), and I suspect I saved $100 &#8211; $200 in labor costs while learning something.<\/p>\n<p>With new tires fitted yesterday, there&#8217;s only one active issue left with my car: a rattling\/resonating when load is applied to a cold engine when the RPMs are low. I suspect it&#8217;s a tensioner or pump that&#8217;s sticking a bit. Hopefully within the next couple of days I&#8217;ll get some time to diagnose this one as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time in mid-2013 I noticed that my car&#8217;s engine was getting a bit oily, with all of it appearing from just below the valve&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/03\/2006-honda-civic-ex-valve-cover-gasket-replacement\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2006 Honda Civic EX Valve Cover Gasket Replacement<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-making-things","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17853,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17850\/revisions\/17853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}