258 Valve cover gasket question

You can get cork gaskets for either type of cover. They are different.

Some of those aluminium covers don't use any gasket, just RTV silicone.

Having the surfaces perfectly clean is the big trick. I get them super clean, then I use a skim of RTV on both sides with a cork gasket.

The one I put in in 2000 on mine is still pretty dry and my plastic cover only has the two bolts up top center.

I also 'think' your 89 came stock with the metal cover.

Mike

Nels>

my 89 has a metal cover

Congratulations -that's the Brit way of spelling it. (we pronounce it all-you-min-i-um)

Dave Milne, Scotland '91 Grand Wagoneer, '99 TJ

Nelson ( snipped-for-privacy@optikadesign.qc.ca) wrote on Friday 30 April 2004 02:22 pm:

Nelson,

The NAPA ones work pretty good. Mines been on for a year and a half and is holding good. I just made sure I cleaned all surfaces very well with brake cleaner, then put a thin coat of RTV on both sides of the gasket, the engine, and the valve cover.

You may have to trim the gasket a bit to fit your particular valve cover.

Heh, posting from Shaw cable, yet he can't spell in Canadian eh?

Mike

Steve G wrote:

Thanks for the all the replies guys! I will go get one at NAPA and change it next week. I'll let you know how well it worked out.

Nelson

Only in the dictionary...

We still spell Brit up here on most things...

My spell checker is always pissing me off when I know I have the right spelling...

Mike

Steve G wrote:

See, if you'd had the good sense to get into a proper scrape with the Limeys like we did you could have spelled "colour" or "programme" without the extra letters, or said "counter-clock wise rather than "anti clockwise". (I've never been quite sure what the Brits had against clockwise, but apparently they're very much against it.)

I'm fairly sure you're not forced to use European paper, you know, the stuff that's longer than our legal size and won't fit in any copier, printer, etc. That would be worse than taxation without representation. Perhaps you could all dress up like Indians and throw the stuff into Hudsons Bay or the St Lawrence in protest!

Does anybody know when or why paper sizes diverged?

Office store conspiracy one might venture. Keeps folks from smuggling low cost foreign paper products.