For all:
With all the work I did to my car this spring, I also replaced
the valve cover gasket. The new gasket had shrunk a bit since
manufacture, and no way was it going to fit properly.
There are those little aluminum ribs on the inside of the
cover that
hang down just a bit further than the gasket surface.
The gasket just would not go around those.
So, I soaked the gasket in water for one day. This made it
a little bigger, and also made it able to be streatched a
bit. So, I used hard dry permatex and cemeted the gasket
to the valve cover. I used about 15 clothes pins to hold it
in exactly the right place, and let dry one day.
When I put it on the car, I used
a light coat of bearing grease on the engine side of the gasket.
With only moderate tightening, it fits well and is leak free.
I have removed it and re-installed it several times in the
course of valve adjustments and head re-tourqing,
with no problems.
Perhaps this will help someone!
Best Regards,
Jim
Chesapeake Va
67 pushrod 2L 5spd
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