evening all;

i'm having real trouble with my rocker cover leaking

basically the rocker cover is leaking and filling up the spark plug wells with oil (right to the brim), although it only seems to fill the back well nearest the bulk head and a little oil in the 3rd well

before i put the rocker cover on i put a straight edge against it and its straight so i know thats not an issue.

i torqued them up to 15nm but this didnt seem tight enough and oil was pissing in so i've done them alot tighter and it still pisses in. Where i have done them tight; the cam cap studs have stared to indent through the rocker cover so i guess this is too tight but i still have the same problem!

are there different deck heights to cam covers? maybe that;s my problem? anyone know what a standard one should be?

my other options i was thinking was to screw the cam cap studs further in or maybe grind the top of them off?

anybody else experienced this?

ps. i'm using a brand new cometic gasket, please help, getting very frustrated!

Matt

 

silicon lol

 

cam cap studs upside down?

i put a few in the wrong way on an allnighter once, and was similar.....

 

as above!cap studs should deffo not be touching your cam cover!

 

i guess that is possible, although i;ve never taken the cam out of this head....could have been done before my ownership i suppose.

cheers for the replies

 

Theres your problem then,the cam cap studs are stopping the cover going down tight.

Have you replaced the cam cap studs????????

Funny they are that high if you haven't changed them.

 

they shouldnt touch the rc, nomatter how tight, so either they are incorrect studs, or are incorrectly fitted.....

 

yeah i know that's my problem, if i do them any tighter the cam studs will come through the rocker cover!

as above, i suppose someone could have put them in upside down, or maybe not screwed them in far enought

 

cheers Jtechsaff, going down the workshop again tomorrow so will have another look

 

theres your first point of call to check mate, something sounds amiss there

 

cheers

apart from the screw type oil cap, are all rockers the same on the saff;s 4x4 and 2wd?

 

yep

 

As said it is obviously bottoming out before being fully tightened and compressing the gasket.
I imagine in the past someone had a leak so they tightened the RC down so tight they distorted it, and it then had a skim, where someone was a bit enthusiastic about how much he took off.
If it were the studs being wrong and too long, you could simply cut them bit I think this is very unlikely to the the case.
I have a RC in my garage so can easily measure it if you want, just PM me.
Whilst the RC is off I would stick a bit of sealant under under the front cam caps as they leak here often.
I only torque mine down to the correct setting and it is fine with a cometic gasket, plus a dab of sealant under the front caps, and a little just to hold the half moons in place, plus around the rear half moons.
tabetha

 

Matt,those studs should be NOT touching the cam cover i would suggest taking it off and taking a picthis has happened with 2 covers so there must be another issue

I would gues the studs on the rear caps have been fitted wrong as a guess

Paul

 

i bet the studs are in upside down.....

 

cheers everyone

all the studs were in upside down! - i turned them all round; and it sealed ok, although i do have a slight leak as the cam cover has craked a little

thanks all

 

Who put them in upside down ?
tabetha

 

not sure to be honest; it was a spare head that came with the car.

 

atleast its sorted now


i still aint seen your car or Pauls...properly lol

 

mine isnt mot'd or taxed yet, and its still parked up. it looks different now with cossie rims and a 4x4 bonnet - i'm just setting the idle CO correctly and i need to turn the boost up as i reckon it was only running around 15psi

paul's motor is sweet, its not his daily driver anymore.....hence why you probably havent seen it yet

mine will be on the road hopefully in the next few weeks...........all being well

 

Ive seen pauls when he was using it everyday ages ago mind, there is quite a few mint Saph's around our area now

 

i dont see many cossie's around swindon anymore; there's one down Beechcroft road on axle stands i know about; apart from that that's it

 

by the St Phillips church? Flint Grey? G plater?

have you seen that lately, that is Mint, spent lots of Dosh onit, ive seen an Mallard Green EsCos there before with the engine out & a few weeks later i see it outside my work mate Ben's House in Penhill. There is a few about that i know, There use to be a Smokestone saph on RS7's oppsite me last summer but havent seen it since.

 

Paul said that flint grey one has had a new front end, he said it aint mint underneath.

 

ah right, its had a complete respray on the outside tho, does look good from a distance, i only live around the corner you see, i see another friday drove past my house, looked black, think it was on Mo's too

 

That was the last owner

 

Lee the black one is on my old 5 spokes and front brakes and is not a cos
Another one of my mates

 

ah right, Paul you live in stratton too dont you?

 

There is a pukka on ein Malmsbury(sp), running 450, a mercury grey one on a f plate, with RFS wheels .
tabetha