MoJoJoe 46 Report post Posted April 12, 2014 (edited) I was replacing the valve cover gasket today, and the internals seems to have a bronze colour? I found some red ish burned up oil on my valve cover which I hosed off(couldn't be bothered sand blasting it) and used degrease to clean but it became yellowish. and the stains now wont come off the valve cover not that I care much. But the fuel cap also had some burned red ish oil stains on it which I managed to clean up well. Does this look normal or am I in deep head gasket trouble? Car doesn't have any power loss, drives fine for hundreads of k's, no overheating, no white smoke, oil in coolant or any HG symptoms I am used to. Just checking, putting things back on after I try to clean the valve cover again tomorrow and dry it up. Edited April 12, 2014 by MoJoJoe Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eagle 1662 Report post Posted April 12, 2014 Looks fine. I wouldn't worry about trying to clean the cover. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yng_750 247 Report post Posted April 12, 2014 Pretty standard. Gold or bronze looking is a clean engine. Black is dirty. Only engine i ever saw that was still silver inside was one that had run on lpg its whole life. Much cleaner that way. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
