[s-cars] Darwin candidate - was Gasket replacement

[Richard Tanimura]

Tom,

You erroneously assume I was behaving intelligently. This one was REALLY
stoopid, even for me. Had I killed myself doing this job, I would have won
the Darwin. I thought the valve cover had only 6 screws. I checked the
gasket and it had 6 screw holes. Made sense. I could not for the life of me
figure why the cover would not come off.

I had to clear away all this space to cut slices of the gasket out using an
exacto knife. I figured the PO had glued the gasket. This is hard work and
required making a lot of room :-) I am really one with my car now. Half the
motor is on the garage floor.

I was not until I espied the 2 studs sticking up in the middle of the valve
cover that lightening struck me. "These are perchance not just there to hold
the sparkplug cover" I surmised. Doooh. 20 seconds and the top was off.
&%¤#!=/*! I cannot believe I did that. I have done really dumb things but
this was the dumbest I have ever done.

Thanks to all who lent a hand,

Rich

-----Original Message-----
From: tblack [mailto:Tblack5 at cogeco.ca]
Sent: den 24 mars 2003 17:48
To: Richard Tanimura; s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Gasket replacement help


Richard, The cam cover gasket requires nothing to be removed to replace it
other than the spark plug cover and the cam cover. It seems like you are
going for the cylinder head gasket and that is certainly a much bigger job.
Are you sure the leak is at the CH gasket. That would be rather unusual. If
it is you have a major job on your hands requiring  the removal of the IM
and EM plus ++.
Tom Black.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Tanimura" <Richard at Tanimuras.com>
To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 11:01 PM
Subject: [s-cars] Gasket replacement help