Oil residue around head gasket!!!!!

[Coondog #77]

I noticed some oil residue coming from my headgasket today. i am curious if this is an instant death sentence for my motor and should not ride it. any insight would be nice.

[l1tech]

While not a sign of impending doom there is obviously a problem with the gasket itself, wether the gasket failed or something like stressed head studs caused the gasket to fail won't be determined until you get the head off. If it were mine I wouldn't ride it agian until I pulled the head and checked everything out. Might not be anything at all but the head is so easy to pull and head gaskets are cheap it's better to be proative and go looking for the problem as opposed waiting for it to snowball inot something larger.

[ElderGeek]

X2 what he said.....