'93 Accord LX; I noticed large amounts of oil in the 3rd cylinder when I replaced the spark plugs twice in a row... just installed new spark plug grommets and a new valve cover gasket but found that the gasket provided in the box is giving me a lot of trouble... it seems that it is too large (is the VTEC engine's gasket larger? Could they have given me the wrong one?).

I need the car to be working tomorrow and was wondering if it would work to use the old gasket as it is shaped perfectly and will fit fine. Otherwise, I can try to use more silicone to get the new gasket to stick when I'm putting the cover back on and see if that works...

Thanks in advance!!!

 

yes v-tec gasket is totally different ........so are the upper spark pug seals

use the correct parts. DO NOT Ttry to patch things up ,,get a different gasket
the middle 3 part #s should be PTO.. for the v-tec are POA

 

The parts I have are for the 2.2L F22A and F22A5... it doesn't mention the H22 anywhere, so I'm pretty sure they're not the V-TEC gaskets. The manufacturer is Fel-Pro, so the part numbers are a bit different. It says it works on all the F22 engines from 90-96.

That all being said, would it be better to try to silicone the entire valve cover to get the gasket that seems too large to stick when I put the cover on, or just use the old gasket?

 

I would NOT reccomend to silicone the whole gasket ,, it will leak worse,, And as for using the old gasket i cannot say either because i do not know what condition it is in,, If the old gasket is still plyable, not cracked,, you can reuse it till you get a new and correct one ,,

 

Thank you so much for the advice! The old gasket was fine, it just had a little grime along the rim which I cleaned off. I ended up putting the old gasket back on as the only problem was really the 3rd cylinder's gasket and not the valve cover gasket itself.

That being done, unfortunately, my car still has the same crazy shudder that it only does when it's warm... it feels like something mechanical, like a transmission problem or something messed up with the axles / cv boots, but that would happen all the time.

In any case, I'll post my complete process once I've found the cause and fixed it just in case it helps someone else somewhere along the way.

Thanks again!

 

I put a FelPro valve cover gasket on my daughter's '92 Accord non-vtec. It was too long also, but not enough to be the 'wrong' gasket.It was the correct shape only a couple mmtoo long. It was a little bit of a challenge getting it to stayin the groove on the underside of the valve cover.

If you tighten down one side of the VC, the gasket tries to ooze out of the other side. The trick seems to be get the gasket real well positioned around the VC, then tighten all sides evenly so it doesn't have a chance to squeeze out. Once I got it installed it was good.

It would be far worse if the gasket was too short. Then it would come out of the groove INWARD, and you wouldn't realize there's a problem.