<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Simon</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">The BJ8 from 29f 3954 used a cup washer with the short piece rubber (tubing) to seal the bolt to the cover. Can be used on the earlier engines that used a copper plain washer under the bolt head. Have not seen a fiber washer used in this location. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Perry<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Feb 14, 2016, at 12:14 PM, Simon Lachlan <<a href="mailto:simon.lachlan@homecall.co.uk">simon.lachlan@homecall.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Not the most helpful topic title but here goes anyhow.........In a 3000:-<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">There are three so-called “Cover, cylinder side” on the RHS of the engine. That is to say three little hatches through which one accesses the push rods etcetc. The generator is mounted on the front one; the breather comes off the rear one. So....<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Mine have always seeped a little oil, nothing much but I decided to sort it out. I ordered three new cork gaskets and the appropriate washers and seals for the bolts that hold the covers onto the block. Somewhat to my surprise I received:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><!--[endif]--> 3 little bits of black rubber which resemble sections of rubber tubing about 6mm long and about 4mm across. They are, it seems, designed to go under the cover and but up against it to help prevent the outward creep of oil. The bolts would pass through them and slightly squash them in order that they fill the space around the bolt. See what I mean?????<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><!--[endif]-->3 little flat fibre washers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Now, it is these latter about whom I am confused. The tops of the covers has a slightly “dished” area through which the bolts access the block. Into that dished area go, on my car at least, shaped copper washers that are, I suppose, designed to take up the slack somehow. But how will a flat fibre washer cope with a washer in a dished area without being crushed, breaking and thus rendered useless? Are the fibre washers to go under the copper, over the copper or instead of it? Or could they be designed to sit between the rubber and the inside face of the covers? ie they’d be tucked away inside the covers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">These parts are not in the BMC parts book.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Any ideas?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Simon<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Support <a href="http://team.net">Team.Net</a> <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a></span><br><span>Suggested annual donation $12.75</span><br><span>Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/archive">http://www.team.net/archive</a></span><br><span>Forums: <a href="http://www.team.net/forums">http://www.team.net/forums</a></span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net">Healeys@autox.team.net</a></span><br><span><a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys">http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/healeyguy@aol.com">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/healeyguy@aol.com</a></span><br><span></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>