jaiscossie

just got a new cam cover gasket as taking cam cover off to be powder coated. got some new stainless bolts but unsure of how tight to do these?? are there any tricks when replacing the cam cover gasket i should know about? cheers in advance guys

Graceland

make sure the gasket is perfect on all faces, and that all mating surfaces are clean.

tightening the bolts - hand tight and then off the top of my head, they are 10 nm on a torque wrench

Damo V

dont forget half moon seals IMO a nice little sealent around the front at least helps NO end, just do the bolts up "tight" (I used a 1/4 drive rachet)

Graceland

my prefered method of tightening is using a Tbar allen driver (5mm allen key it is) and doing them all tight with that - no chance of stripping the threads then

bud-weis

just had to do this myself, tis fairly easy, i used a small allen driver t-bar like above. i just nipped them up and then went round in a sort of seqeunce ( doing opposites ) . that was using a cometic gasket though, which is re-useable and seems much better than the ford jobbie

jaiscossie

so you cant over tighten them and crush the gasket then? i will get those half moon seals aswell .at the moment when you give it some oil drips onto manifold and gives typical smell inside the cabin

Damo V

no but you can strip the threads in the head

jaiscossie

cheers damo ill be carefull when doing them up then, saw your car at essex meet this month and fell inlove its a credit to you mate

Damo V

cheers jais..