In a message dated 11/13/02 10:23:52 PM Pacific Standard Time,
jmwagner@greenheart.com writes:
<< How many hours would you have spent scraping off old gaskets?
How much time would you have spent prepping new cork gaskets with
sealants? How much oil would have ended up in the engine compartment
and tarmac? How much time would you have spent cleaning up the mess?
How often would your car have been laid up waiting on a new cork
gasket? Would you have check your valves as often as you did, if you
had to fear that your cork gasket wouldn't survive the inspection? >>
Do a lot of you FOTers do the above exercise? Just glue the stock valve
cover gasket to the cover with gasket sealant, and put oil on the side of the
gasket that seats against the head. You can take the cover off and put it on
as many times as you want, and it never seem to leak badly. Wipe off most of
the residual oil around the cover after installing it, so that a Tech
Inspector doesn't think that it is leaking.
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