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Tech Area => General Buick Tech => Topic started by: Forzfed on November 07 2018, 05:20:21 PM
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So the machine shop that did my 4.1 put cork valve cover gaskets on and as usual oil pours out of it! :013:
Does anyone have the part number for the rubber ones with the metal inserts?
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If you have rough cast stock heads, tighten those cork gaskets down again.
Then do it one more time. Once they take a set and mold to the heads, they'll be leak free (and reusable) for over a decade of daily driving.
It typically takes three tightinings to make them happy.
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I did tighten them once already. But I really hate cork! As soon as it gets cold out they shrink. I remembering taking them out in pieces.
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Hit them a 3rd time and they'll be leak free (unless you're running some weird ass metric cork :) )
I put a set of fel-pro corks on my GN when I bought it in '98 and never took them off until a high pressure/high temp rotary dishwasher compromised them. If I'd hand cleaned them, those '98 models would still be on my car.
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I have a cork gasket on my tranny pan. Been on and off probably a dozen times. No leaks. Cork for the win!
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The Right Stuff. Here endeth the lesson.
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How do you get them off Brad? The shit is strong!!!!!
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How do you get them off Brad? The shit is strong!!!!!
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Crow bar.
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My buddy used it on an oil pan once hammer and a painters 3 in 1 tool was the only we to get it off.
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That's the only thing I use on my oil pans.
I like my X-over pipes without baked on crap.
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I have a cork gasket on my tranny pan. Been on and off probably a dozen times. No leaks. Cork for the win!
I cork gasket on my oil pan with the right stuff. Never had a leak there but those damn valve cover gaskets are possessed!
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I git tired of the damn valve covers leaking.