Rubber Valve cover gasket

[Pat]

The gaskets should have metal sleeves so you can't over-torque.
Every time I try to torque lightly, they just back off and leak worse.

Maybe some locktite is in order?


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From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On
Behalf Of Snoopy
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 2:16 AM
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: Rubber Valve cover gasket

Yup. Even bought the torque wrench (never needed it before), but it didn't
help :)

On 2013.05.23 08:53, Huw Powell wrote:
> Pay attention to the very light torque specs.  Overtorque, gasket leaks.
>
> - Huw
>
> On 5/23/2013 1:27 AM, Snoopy wrote:
>> I've been through 2 cork versions and 2 rubber Reinz gaskets, none of
>> them hold as expected. Maybe my valve cover is skewed. So the dealer may
>> be a good alternative.
>>
>> On 2013.05.22 23:48, Christopher Gharibo wrote:
>>> Buy the upgraded gasket from the dealer. The quality is superior to
>>> aftermarket.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Message: 1
>>>> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 12:12:01 -1000
>>>> From: "al" <streichea001 at hawaii.rr.com>
>>>> To: "Quattro" <Quattro at audifans.com>
>>>> Subject: Rubber Valve cover gasket
>>>> Message-ID: <BB7F28FFEDE240F08917A46CBA60E011 at AlPC>
>>>> Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="iso-8859-1"
>>>>
>>>> I am tired of these cork/rubber gaskets. Can someone point me in the
>>>> right
>>> direction, so I can by a rubber gasket for my 1990 80 4cyl 2.0L?
>>
>>
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