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Let's be clear on which gaskets/seals we are talking about. You have said it is leaking from the cylinder head gasket, in the area I have the green oval around in a previous post. That is the same area I have shown with a red oval in the next picture in the same post. Is it leaking from there? It isn't just some splattered oil from somewhere else, it is coming out from the joint between the cylinder head and the cylinder/crankcase casting? If it is, you need to replace the cylinder head gasket, the part I have shown three examples of, some better than others. The part is not all that expensive - about $6 for an unbranded one, and perhaps twice that for a genuine Honda one. You would need to remove the cylinder head, and take it to a Honda dealer, to verify that a Honda gasket will fit. I do not recommend using a non-genuine one if a genuine one will fit: you have already been bitten once by that gasket leaking.

Let's be clear on where your second leak is. Do you mean the crankcase cover gasket, shown circled in red here?


Or do you mean the crankshaft power take off oil seal, circled in red here?