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Technical => Engine Tech Forum => Topic started by: kirin on December 06, 2005, 09:43:53 PM
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Hey guys,
For the past few days I've noticed a few drips of stray oil on my right side heaterbox.... Well I came home tonight and found the bug leaving a nice long oil stain down the driveway and the heaterbox covered in oil. Any idea what could cause a valve cover gasket to fail in such a way?
Guess I'm resealing the driveway... again!
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maybe its not the valve cover, have you taken a good look? Maybe a pushrod tube seal has cracked? But either way, get yourself a piece of wood under your car or maybe a big shallow box with a plastic liner, replace your gaskets and pushrod tube seals when you get time.
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I haven't really looked that hard. Last time I was under there it was definetly coming from the valve cover and I tapped it a bit to try to seat it a bit better. When I was under there last the pushrods seemed clean(although they are the chrome ones...) anyways time to get underthere and see.... SOunds like a task for tommorow!
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Well it wasn't the pushrod tubes I think the valve cover gasket got sucked in or something.
I took off the cover, cleaned the snot out of it with brake clean, wiped down the heaterbox(she's going to stink for a while). Then I glued in a new cork Valve cover gasket with Permatex \"the right stuff\" let it set up a bit. Installed and well its in there drying. Also put some christmas lights on the roofrack..
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I've used permatex \"right stuff\" for years on my valve cover gaskets and never had one suck in form 7500+rpms. No need for welded tabs in my opinion.
Kleen flo has some grey snot silicon too. Ultra grey does the trick aswell.
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On all my \"Non-Hi-po engines\" I've glued the gaskets in since the Day James Lindsay taught me nearly 5 years ago. Works great. Just the builder of this last engine didn't do that...
-Kirin