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[Norcalrallyist]

My car started leaking oil from the valve cover gasket area about a week ago and I thought it was just bad gasket but I noticed it was actually being pushed out between the valve cover and gasket. So I was driving on the road today and suddenly I lost power. It was running on 3 cyl. I drove it to a gas station and now the leak had become a lot worse. I got it towed home and number 4 has no compresiion. All 4 plugs looked good. I thought that I had a valve seal that was causing me to burn oil once in a while. If that seal is in really bad shape am I losing all my compression through the valves causing that pressure in the valve cover pushing the oil out?

 

[gurmanator]

bad head gasket or burnt valve or bad pcv valve.are you blowing the dipstick out?A bad head gasket would make it over heat but there is always that different situation and you might be the lucky one.Do you have water in the oil or vice versa?

 

[Norcalrallyist]

no im not blowing the dipstick and theres no water in oil. I was driving along normal temps and it just dropped a cyl.

 

[gurmanator]

Im going to say burnt valve.

 

[-Stroked-]

Some picture's would definatly help on this. Sounds like a burnt valve to me too but it could be that the rings in that pistons are shot for some reason or something like that but I bet you burnt a valve and need a new one.

 

[Norcalrallyist]

Im going to pull the head and see what it looks like. Thanks