4KS cam cover gasket

[Larry Smeins <lsmeins@ball.com>]

The cam cover gasket is leaking again on the 84 KS that I gave my son.
This is not a new problem.  The present gasket was installed about 40K
miles ago when he was going to school in Butte, MT.  He went through
several gaskets before getting one to seal.  In the process several of
the studs stripped out of the head but he managed to get everything
sealed.  Now some more studs have pulled out and I need to replace the
gasket.  First: any opinions on helicoiling the cover hold down stud
holes in the head?  Then: what is the best gasket to use and what gasket
sealer to use with it?  I've started using rubber loaded cork gaskets on
my Chevy and am leaning that direction for the Audi.

BTW: This Audi has about 280K miles on it and is still running good,
just need to cut down on the leaking oil.  The odometer became
intermittent, works when cold, at 240K about 3 years ago and is
registering 257K now, so we are guessing on actual mileage.  We joke
about getting half a million out of it before a rebuild.  I did a leak
down test on it at 240K and it measured like a new engine.

Larry
If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost