Cost of valve cover gasket on a 2002 XLT

[drdoug]

Hey everyone I’m looking at a 2002 that is in great shape save for a left rear valve cover oil Leak that drips onto the header. Has anyone paid a garage to do this job and how much did you pay ? Thank you in advance

 

[swshawaii]

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Also FWIW. Good luck.
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[drdoug]

Thank you !

 

[Phil02]

Hey everyone I’m looking at a 2002 that is in great shape save for a left rear valve cover oil Leak that drips onto the header. Has anyone paid a garage to do this job and how much did you pay ? Thank you in advance

I have the same problem and got a quote to do both valve covers. They said $700.00. I can but the gaskets for less than $50 including the intake manifold gaskets. The time that I was quoted was 4 hours.

 

[Trollslayer]

If you do it yourself make sure not to loose the metal grommets in the valve cover bolt holes.

 

[shane10]

Was quoted around $700 for both covers as well, ended up doing them myself as well as intake manifold gaskets as Phil stated for about $40.
The only issue I ran into was the EGR tube would NOT budge, ended up bending it slightly out of the way as many others have suggested and got the job done in about 4 hours. Aside from the EGR it's a relatively easy job if you have the time for it.
Good luck

 

[Josef161]

Why don't you clean the outside with brake clean and put some lucas oil stop leak in it. It could stop the leak or slow it down. I personally would live with it if i could slow it down a bit. Saves you $700 on a vehicle that's worth $2k.

 

[Trollslayer]

Stop leak is a good way to burn a bearing or swipe a camshaft. Back in the old days when engines had big tolerances and oil was convention and thick it did not matter as much now. That's why they use 5W-20 synthetic oil as oppossed to the old 10W-40.

You're better off to replace the gaskets.

 

[Josef161]

Thanks didn't know that.