Lol. I spent a few minutes looking for the circle then I found it

 

So when I remove the valve covers I should also replace the camshaft seals? It seems like a strange ideo but I want to replace the valves overs then do the intake repaint and testing.

 

man, that's funny speedtoys.......needed that, thanks

 

I am going to curse myself now. I have no oil leaks. Then again, I have replaced pretty much every gasket on the car in the last 2-3 years, some twice.

 

Replacing the seals forces you to pull the front of the engine and drivebelt components apart, so think careflly if this is on your to-do list now or in the near future. Lots of little one- or two-day projects snowball into task lists that are so daunting that the car never gets finished.

My feeling generally is that these seals are fine until they leak. Look at them again when you do a scheduled timing belt replace. At that time, popping the cam covers off for a seal replacement won't impact your whole project scheule by more than an hour. While adding a 12+ hour TB project will make your cam cover project 6x as fun.

 

Those are the hockey puck seals right?

Only if they're leaking. Otherwise leave them alone. For the front, driver side you may be able to replace without disassembling the front. The passenger side necessitates you disassemble pretty much everything on the front of the car just to get that cam gear plate off to get to it. Not sure how difficult the rears are.


If you remove the valve covers you have to replace the spark plug cylinder and valve cover gaskets.