I been having an oil leak someplace around bank 1 (firewall side) which I thought was the valve cover (I upgraded to the 2004 covers) gasket leaking again. The oil travels down onto the right control arm.

Today I pulled the intake collector off and saw this:


Closer:


Thoughts? I believe I am looking for:
23796-8j100 solenoid
23797-2y500 gasket

 

Stumped everyone? I can't be the only 5.5 gen to have this problem.

 

Did you RTV the timing cover area sealing the valve cover when you replaced it?

 

I also have this problem and I'm heading to the dealer to pick up a new gasket. My local dealer has it for $5. I'm hoping somehow this is part of while I have a small hesitation

 

RTV the timing cover area? All I've done was drop in the 2004 maxima valve covers. Had some oil leaking from there but I thought I stopped that by going over the gaskets again with more sealant. But that was ages ago.

I pulled off the valve timing solenoid and went over that gasket with some copper spray gasket.

@ColombianMax, which gasket? The valve cover gasket?

 

No, the valve timing solenoid gasket. I've had it since that post but been too lazy to fix it lol

 

lol well pop it off and spray it with this junk