Ok, this one has got me stumped, a couple of weeks ago, my front valve cover on my v6 98 bring was leaking, so I changed the gasket, and the three round ones for the spark plug tubes.  It ran fine for about 2 weeks, now after sitting for a couple of days, I have the same problem again, but worse, the oil is actually coming up out of the spark plug wells, any ideas what may be causing this?  Also, when I unscrew and remove the sparkplug, it is also covered and dripping with oil??  Please help if you have any ideas.

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Not to sound like a total noob or anything, but isn't the idea of the gasket to be the sealant?  I followed the steps in the chilton manual, and it didn't list anything about sealant?  Has anybody else had this problem, and/or done this type of work?  I'm pretty mechanically inclined, and never had this kind of an issue before.

Did you by any chance have the same problem with your spark plugs being oily when you pull them out?  Also, did you use the sealant on the gasket, or apply it to the head and valve cover?

When I did my valve cover i clean the valve cover and the block part with acatone and get off all the black stuff that is left from the old oil. Then I put a high temp RTV sealent on both side of the rubber gasket not too much! Just a little bit of it just to holr the rubber gasket. Then put it togeter and torque the bolt in squence. Let the car sit for 24 hours to give the sealent a time to cure up then you should not have any leaks. did it on my 2 eclipse's and no problem