Oil Leak From Cylinder Head After New Gasket

[martyn180 9]

After doing the head gasket I appear to have obtain an oil leak between the head/block, just behing the water pump.

I have torqued up, per puma racing site, and used genuine pug bolts

 

Should I loosed and retorque up again, can I cause more problem, or just keep topping up until next winter.

 

A pressue test, got 195, 205, 200, 205 on the a snap on presure tester. so everything seals ok, and no oil in the water.

Thanks for any help

[hothatch 2]

Tough one this , when you say pressure test what pressure test ? In water ? Cylinder leakage test ? Compression test?

 

Was the head skimmed ? Was the block prepped nice an clean before mating the gasket and head ?

 

Loosening the head bolts will make things worse definatly, some people torque them down a little more but is the cow boy way .

[martyn180 9]

Was a compression test, with all plugs out, warm engine.

Head was skimmed, and rebuilt by shenpar. and pretty sure the head\block was clean. Definately no old gasket left on the block

[hothatch 2]

Well I dnt really know what to say, at the end of the day there should be no oil leaking from the mating surfaces. How much oil is actually leaking from there ?

[martyn180 9]

When I park I get about 2/3 cm2 under the car . You can see oil on part of the block that sticks out when looking down the back just below the bottom of the manifold.

Thought it was the rocker cover, but changed it and dried up around the top.

[welshpug 1,666]

cam seal?

[martyn180 9]

cam seal replaced at time, look ok as I still have the covers off as was going to skip brown on thursday for a rr setup incase they wanted to adjust the cam timing , and no oil on the part of the cam sticking out

[hothatch 2]

its got to be a gasket fault or fault in fitting some how. or cracked block ? i dont no to be honest, but that sounds like a lot of oil to me.