Look what I found out in my garage this morning!
I reluctantly delayed my drive into work to install the new seals. Valve cover off:
The old seals (which I KNEW were trouble) had fallen entirely out of their sockets in the cover, and were resting on the cam rocker arms.
I didn’t know which direction the new seals went, so I looked it up. Here it is:
I replaced the spark plug seals, the valve cover bolt seals, and the valve cover gasket. Which is to say I used the whole felpro kit.
Back together!
As an aside, I’m a little sad (happy?) to notice that the civic is making more power now. I think it’s been dealing with this oil-ignition-coil issue for a while at least
–ctag