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Mar 24, 2011 | 08:25 PM

04gray350

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Valve Cover issue

Notice I am leaking oilon the back side of the driver side. Come to find out its the valve cover gasket leaking so I tried to tighten them but all they did was spin on the back two. I guess they messed them up when they put the new gaskets on. Any ideas how to fix this problem?

Mar 24, 2011 | 08:33 PM

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Mar 24, 2011 | 08:37 PM

04gray350

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ICP whats that?

Mar 24, 2011 | 09:46 PM

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man if the bolts are spiining in the aluminum rockerbox your gonna need to do some helicoil work.
iirc 8x1.25

Mar 24, 2011 | 10:02 PM

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Helicoil work please tell me more. The two on the drivers side front anr good and tight but the back two just spin

Mar 24, 2011 | 10:05 PM

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how good are you with a drill and tap.
remove v/c ,drill and tap holes incert helicoil (loctite them in with 262) let set for a few min and reinstall valve cover

Mar 24, 2011 | 10:15 PM

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Is that really soft metal/aluminum that thry screw into?

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Mar 24, 2011 | 10:20 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by 04gray350

ICP whats that?

Whoops, I didn't catch the part about the valve cover bolts spinning. It still could be your ICP but the fact that the bolts don't tighten means the threads have been stripped out. If the threads in the head are stripped then you'll have to drill, tap and helicoil the heads but it could be that the bolts themselves have simply stripped which would mean you'd just want to chase the existing threads in the head with a tap and then use new bolts.

Go out and see if you can get the bolts out and see if they have any thread on them. The heads are going to be a little more tricky (i.e. a total bitch due to their location) to drill and tap, helicoils are the easy part...