how long can you gooooooooo?

[magnethead]

The 454 started leaking oil today, making a bit of a burning oil smell, like oil is leaking out from under the valve covers onto the headers.

Why doesn't this surprise me? My dad says the whole time we've owned the truck, the engine hasn't been touched (except alternator, belt, & the such). I assume valve cover gaskets fall under that category.

keep in mind, thats 15 years in my life alone, we've had it bout 4 years before I was born. So a good 19 years on a set of valve cover gaskets....I dare ask what it would look like if we pulled the intake with the valve covers...replace em all at once.