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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 04:46 PM
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Default Re: Valve cover leak...

Finished up PS breather cover today. Used the Permatex Ultra Grey Gasket Maker product I referenced earlier. Everything seemed to work fine. Breather cover cleaned up really nice using Carb/Choke Cleaner. Always keep a spray can on-hand. Best parts cleaner ever.

And I did use a small brass bristle brush over the gasket mating surfaces on both the breather cover & valve cover. Pay particular attention to MikeR's pictures regarding the plugging of oil drain pathways on the valve cover. The small bits & pieces of old RTV gasket material will fall into just about every crevice it can find. I finally vacuumed out the valve cover to get all of these small pieces. (Note: I recommend using a clean paper towel to wipe up and remove any oil that pockets along the breather side of the valve cover once you remove the breather cover. Just makes it easier to vacuum & collect old gasket material later on during this repair.)

During re-assembly of breather cover I checked for valve cover bolt torque setting and found 10 N-m (7-8 Ft-lbs) on the service manual disc I've got. After I tightened the 2 bolts that pass thru the breather cover, I checked the remaining valve cover bolts. Found all of them less than 10 N-m. Re-tightened these bolts also. Then I tightened the 2 small hex head machine screws in the breather cover to 5-6 N-m (slightly over snug).

I'll post again when I finish up the DS tomorrow.
 
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