Pulled Valve Cover - A few surprises....

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Fixkick,

I pulled the valve cover to lash the valves and was greeted with 2 surprises.

1. I have a lot of varnish inside the rockers and valve cover as shown in these photos. I think I have a leaky valve seat and exhaust is entering the valve cover? I know the last two rockers were tight with no gap. The rest were close. But, I have them all at .06 now.




2. The second surprise was that the PO used some permatex on the valve cover gasket. The gasket itself seemed like it was in pretty good shape. I'm not sure what's going on at the distributor end of the valve cover, but it must have been leaking for them to add this permatex. I took a shot of the gap with the cover laying on top of the rocker arms....


Here is a shot with the cover sitting on top in the back. Looks like that gap is pretty big.


Any comments? I have a feeling that valve cover is going to leak on me!

John