I finished my cam installation. The timing seems like everything is fine and the car drove great on the test drive. After a little bit of sulking around the neighborhood, I gave it some gas and it showed some power.

Here is the problem. When I pulled into the driveway i noticed oil on my driveway and the car didn't pull very well into the garage. I opened the hood to find that on the cam gear side the seal that we were using tore off completely. Seems when I was putting on the valve cover I didn't fully put the seal under the valve cover and ended up sticking out. I assume the large amount of oil is from the head and that is the reason that there was oil EVERYWHERE. It was all over my cam gears, the pulley, and all down that side. I checked my dipstick to find that I'm quite low aswell which sucks. I guess I will have enough to take it to a place I know where they can replace a new seal because I'm quite tired to do it myself. I have a picture of the oil and the seal that broke. I made the mistake of overlooking that step which sucks. But I'm just happy that it isnt anything major. Tell me what you think and you're look on it.

 

Those seals are tricky, you have to watch it for sure putting them back in... I almost had one of the small ones for the spark plug holes get me....

Sorry about the luck, but just a side note, taking the cam cover off to fix this isn't anywhere near the amount of work as doing cams was...

 

Your bigger problem, I believe, is that you have oil soaked your timing belt.
Get that mess cleaned up quick.
I"m not sure what the oil will do long term to your belt, but I'd be worried...

 

Yeah just go buy a new valve cover gasket and put it on carefully this time. It isn't hard to do and you'll thank yourself later on the amount of money someone might charge you to do it.

What's up with the pin stripes man? J/K

 

Having oil on my belt would be a problem?

 

you can clean it up with some isopropanol, isop dries very quick leaving no residue behind, is used in clean rooms like in the aerospace industry,, however the problem you got is that as soon that belt went in contact with the oil long term is not good for the nilon that is used to reinforce the ruber,
if it was me i'll be cutting that belt out and replacing it, 180$ is alot cheaper than a pair of bent valves and who knows what else,,
be safe and concervative man youre pulling the cover off anyways, replace the t-belt

 

That and oil is an attractant. Any dust that ends up in there will stick to to the gears and the belt acting like valve lapping compound eating away at your belt and aluminum gears.

 

Or soap and water.... ON A COLD ENGINE AFTER THE SEAL IS FIXED.

 

Unfortunately you have soaked your timing belt with oil. If I were you I would replace the timing belt and go through and clean out all that oily mess. I would also do the balance shaft belt while you're in there also. It's PIA, but it's cheap insurance compared to having to repair your valve train or a cracked piston due to a timing belt failure down the line. I'm going to be installing camshafts soon and I will be definitely using brand new cam seals instead of reusing the old ones like I've seen suggested.