The standard cover uses a couple of rubber bushes under the cup washers on
top of the cover. Does the alloy cover have these? It is these bushes that
press the cover, gasket and head together and they could be hard and stuck
in their compressed position.
PaulH.
http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.hunt1/
-----Original Message-----
From: John Steczkowski <stecz@Crossroads.com>
To: MG Mailing List (E-mail) <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: 16 March 1999 15:21
Subject: leaking valve cover
>I have the aluminum valve cover from VB. (Hint: the breather hole is huge,
>so I plugged it with JB weld and then drilled a smaller hole like the stock
>one has).
>
>Anyway, it doesn't seem to leak under normal circumstances, but last night
I
>changed the oil and I noticed that it was leaking badly out of the valve
>cover, only while I was dumping it in (basically it pooled up in the top
end
>because it was getting dumped in faster than it was draining into the
sump).
>
>So, anyone have hints on getting a better seal on an aluminum valve cover?
>It currently has a cork gasket with gasket sealer...
>
>
>----
>John Steczkowski
>Director of Software Engineering
>Crossroads Systems, Inc.
>512-794-2742
>
>
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