audiblackwagon

ok well car was in shop today to look for oil leak and being told they beleave it to be my head gasket. Maybe vally pan gasket but they wrote it up at worse case. So $1500.00 to change out both head gaskets I am being told .

moribundman

It may well be that the head gaskets are moist and that you are losing a bit oil there. My engine has been doing that for 80k miles or so. I'm probably going to retorque the headbolts next time I remove the intake manifold to replace the leaky valley pan gasket. Personally, I would want to see with my own eyes where the oil is leaking. Chances are the VP gasket is leaking in any case. Removing the IM and replacing the VP gasket isn't that bad of a job to do yourself. Cost is essentially only the VP gasket and the two IM gaskets.

audiblackwagon

cool where would I be able to find instruction to get to the vally pan ???? and I dont have a garage could this be done outside??

moribundman

Outside is fine, unless it's windy, raining, or very hot or cold.

<a href="https://forums.audiworld.com/12v/msgs/4105.phtml">Intake Manifold Removal and Valley Pan Gasket Replacement</a>

Luxus Panzer

and be prepaired to swear at your EGR valve when trying to remove it, lol

moribundman

I wrestled a little with it and decided to leave it alone.

Luxus Panzer

But you gotta remove the EGR to remove the Intake manifold??.

moribundman

I did remove the EGR valve from the IM and replaced the gasket, but I didn't have to take the EGR valve completely off to remove the IM.

Luxus Panzer

bastage

smdepew1976

I got a b4 80 with the 2.8 12v and i didn't even have a egr so no worries