Valve seals replacement cost7/28/2023 ![]() It’s a Camry with a reasonably short tube… so should send up a few, if you get a painting (hot oil is very fluid) + lots of “steam”/“smoke” then you have a problem. Most engines will send a few drops up the stick tube. (let he oil “settle” for 30~60 sec.), so take the shopping indoors while it continues to idle. Part 2, when hot, say after a trip on the highway or a 15~30 min on sity streets, back home and ideling on yor drive, Check again. If bad and given the oil is stiff and the pistons have not expanded, you should get lots of gas, not much oil. So part 1, start the engine, then 30sec to 1min later check the blowby. On any engine, Blow-by is at it’s worst when cold and at idle. If a push came to a shove, I would prefer to pay $2300 towards a new OEM “short block” than have a garage rebuild an engine for me, frankly I cannot see how they coudl do it, given todays costs… unless they take shortcuts and put new rings on an old bore which is probably worse than you have now.įirst on a cold engine, Check the oil level is correct, not over nor under. If you had an older engine, say 200Kmls I might suggest that, but given the year and mileage, I’ll not on this occasion. However I am given to believe adding ATF to the oil will expand the rubber of the seals. I reduced the oil consumption on my Camry by switching to full Synthetic oil. So it you can put up with the plume of smoke on startup… and it is giving no other problem, just keep adding oil. You get a kit to hold compressed air in the cyl and keep the valves pushed out while changing the seals and you can change the belts at teh same time.ġ2, 16, etc heads are a lot of work, either on or off the car. ![]() If a single cam, 8 valve, AND a belt driven cam (I assume it is an OHC engine and ot a side cam) then it is possible not much of a challenge, and is possible with great care to remove the Cam, springs and exchange the seals WITHOUT dropping a valve. and how many cams and valves, eg, single Cam, 8 valve. I do not mean splatter a few drops, but blows it out. Remove the oil cap or dipstick and see if it “blows” gas and oil out the hole. A compression check woudl immediately let you knw if you have a bore & ring problem, and I suspect you do not have a bore problem.Įasy check. If all that is gone are the stem seals, there there is no need to change the rings and all that other jazz. Valve stem seals seem to have been a source of leakage on a few Toyotas I have encountered, including my own 6cyl.
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