Valve cover gasket alternatives to cork

[PANAVIA]

pentroofs leak. you can try some of those spreaders we used to see on 327's

the other thing is to use the double THICK gasket -- or a pair of gaskets per side to absorb the ramps between the intake and the head in the front and rear of the FE cylinder head.

Rodney -- "gratuitous">?

wasnt like he posted pics of Melinda Windsor!

[Snakebit]

Mikes Hot Sauce "I put that **** on everything!" All kidding aside, try Permatex Hylomar. Real stickey stuff, but the gaskets can be removed and re applied. I have used this stuff on intake manifolds and valve cover gaskets and no leaks!

[ERA Chas]

So DC-what's the answer??

Did you fill the head/intake joint or are you waiting to hear more magic solutions?-and forget trying the double gasket remedy. If one gasket won't conform to the step, neither will two-even at double the torque. A few guys have given you worthwhile help-now what do you tell us???

[dcdoug]

Originally Posted by ERA Chas

So DC-what's the answer??

Did you fill the head/intake joint or are you waiting to hear more magic solutions?-and forget trying the double gasket remedy. If one gasket won't conform to the step, neither will two-even at double the torque. A few guys have given you worthwhile help-now what do you tell us???

I am going with your suggestion of R/S with cling wrap to prep the rail joint. Then with either the Felpro blue stripe or Felpro rubber (I will probably give the blue stripe another crack). R/S to glue the gasket to the cover and then hot sauce for the gasket to head seal.

Actually, Elmariachi Jim is sending me a tube of brown OG grease and then I will use that for the gasket-head seal.

I didn't do either the rail joint prep or use the right grease last time, so hopefully that solves the issue.

Maybe Patrickt will let me try his new tool since I will check my lash at the same time.

[ERA Chas]

Originally Posted by dcdoug

Maybe Patrickt will let me try his new tool since I will check my lash at the same time.

A. There will be a $250 user fee.
B. You have to get a manicure and wear at least a Patek Philippe in the 'hand' picture.

Now-you sure you wanna do that?? Or adjust valves with feelers like Brent, Barry, Keith, Clayton, George, Tom, LeFevers, Marichi, me...

[dcdoug]

Originally Posted by ERA Chas

A. There will be a $250 user fee.
B. You have to get a manicure and wear at least a Patek Philippe in the 'hand' picture.

Now-you sure you wanna do that?? Or adjust valves with feelers like Brent, Barry, Keith, Clayton, George, Tom, LeFevers, Marichi, me...

I used feelers last time and think I did a good job (actually outstanding, but I was slow). But the tool does look kind of cool and might save me some time having to re-adjust when the lash changes as you lock down the nut. I got better at compensating for that, but still took me a long time to get all of them so they felt like they had exactly the same resistance on the feeler.

[ERA Chas]

You can over-worry this stuff. Use the feelers and the more you do it the more natural and faster it gets. Plus you will improve the accuracy by feel. Every-day engine builders do this in under 10 minutes. And they are accurate.

In case you're doing each cylinder 90 deg around the firing order, there's a much faster way. If you know this already, I apologize-just trying to help ya.

Set #1 cylinder to TDC compression and adjust the following valves:
#1-I & E. #3-I. #4-E. #5-E. #7-I. #8 I & E.
Set #6 cylinder to TDC compression and adjust the following valves:
#2-I & E. #3-E. #4-I. #5-I. #6-I & E. #7-E.

I just saved ya $250 so put that towards a Patek for your Ms

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by dcdoug

Maybe Patrickt will let me try his new tool since I will check my lash at the same time.

Of course Patrick will let you try his new tool. BUT, under one condition... after you have played with it for a while you must then forward it on to ERA Chas, El M., or anyone else that would like to try it out (even the real engine guys like Barry & Keith). Now, considering I dropped 250 clams on this little toy, I would eventually like to get it back from whomever it has been forwarded on to. Now how's that for a deal? PM me your address and I'll ship it out to you early next week. BTW, here's a shot of what we're talking about, and here's a link to the page about it: http://www.precisionmeasure.com/valve4.htm

EDIT -- if there is any real interest, guys could just put their names on a thread and everyone would be on their honor to forward it on to the next guy.