My Toyota Corolla went Kaplut!?

Question

I have a 93 corolla. While driving a valve cover bolt snapped and oil went exploding all over the engine...am I screwed?

Answer 1

If you want to do it on the cheap, see if you can get the valve cover off and put on some of that "liquid gasket". As well my 91 Tercel has an oil/coolant leak due to a cracked head (or possibly head gasket). We went to the local automotive place and added some radiator stop leak. Now it runs better. Trying those two things may help... don't through it out yet.

Answer 2

I would say your fine as long as you quit driving when the oil leak occurred. Just clean the oil off the engine a can of engine de-greaser. Replace the valve cover bolts ALL of them and the valve cover gasket and your on your way! If you ran it with out oil and the engine stopped and now will not turn over yes your screwed. Get out the old check book and take it to a shop have em rebuild the engine.
Good luck

Answer 3

A valve cover bolt snapped? If that is the only thing that happened you'd have a nasty oil leak but thats about all. If the motor doesn't run it has to be something else. Unless of course you drove around for a while after the oil all leaked out.

Answer 4

No you just have to drill out and replace the special bolt(s) replace the valve cover gasket bolt seals and plug well seals inside the valve cover and wash the engine.

Answer 5

Not necessarily, as long as you stopped driving immediately after the incident. Clean up the oil, add more oil to your engine and fire it up. No major damage could have occurred if everything happened the way you explained. Cars can run with little to no oil, and although it is bad for the engine they do still run.

Answer 6

No, get the bolt fixed, install a new valve cover gasket and everything should be fine.