Gasket=4 hour Job

[Dunky Kong]

Figured today would be a great day to do my valve cover gasket. every thing went smootly till i foud out the entire gasket was RTV and silcone . Thats not the worst of it went to put it back on three holes were stripped and had to be tapped . Well long story short i had everything came out great even though im stilled pissed.

[themadscientist]

left it better than when you started, time well spent.

[impact240sx]

I feel bad for you, when I work on my 240 nothing ever goes bad, but other cars normally have alot of pita's like hondas for instance.

[tercel drifter]

ya took me 4 hours the other day to swap in a talon tsi transmission took me about 1 hour to figure out the transmission an only go in one certain way

[S13Joe]

I feel bad for you, when I work on my 240 nothing ever goes bad

lol are you sure its a 240?

[s14derrick]

man that sucks. i just swapped my powder coated valve cover back on today it only took 20 minutes. thank goodness for an untampered with motor

[zenkistic]

I have a question for you guys.

I am planning to remove the top chain guide of my 96 zenki (with 86k miles). Recently I had my valve gasket changed because there was a small oil leak. Do you guys think that I should put a new gasket or use the old gasket when I will put my cover back?

Thanks.

[Dunky Kong]

how long has it been since that was done

[Dunky Kong]

And yes its a 240 lol..i only got 180K on odo and everything is original including stereo.

[zenkistic]

how long has it been since that was done

Approx. 1 month. A 'no' may be obvious, but I don't know how soft is the gasket and whether you have to change it every time you remove the valve cover. Don't flame cause I am not mechanically inclined (my mechanic does all the work). Just need to know.

[Dunky Kong]

I wasn tryn to be like that i did know if it was a month or three but if it was me i would its like max20 bucks at any auto parts store. Thats just me some others might do different. you never know if it might rip or tear. `

[zenkistic]

I wasn tryn to be like that i did know if it was a month or three but if it was me i would its like max20 bucks at any auto parts store. Thats just me some others might do different. you never know if it might rip or tear. `

Yeap, you are right it's pretty cheap. I just checked courtesyparts. That means that freakin firestone ripped me off. Well, that's ok. Now I know. Thanks for the advice, I wasn't implying that you were doing that, just wanted to prevent it from happening.

[Dunky Kong]

how much he charge you if you dont mind me asking. but good luck with everything and its always fun to do your own work also cause you know what was done for sure.. thats the only reason i do my own work.

[zenkistic]

well, I am not at home now, but IIRC they told me something like $100-$120 for the gasket and an oil pressure switch (?). I could smell sth burned in the car so I asked them to do a diagnose and they found those 2 leaks. Total cost of diagnose/repair was around $240. They said the smell was from the oil dripping from the gasket and heated up at the exhaust pipes or sth Sorry for my noobity Anyways, it's my first car, DD and I am a grad student, so I prefer to pay than mess sth up and get stuck in here. Hope I had some free time and experience to save some $s.

[Dunky Kong]

Dang son np about the noobity lol but it was a learning exp. its not a felony to always ask questions

[4cefed]

I tried to fix a leaking valve cover on the donor KA 24 I swapped in a couple years ago, I managed to recycle the gasket, but I think at least 4 or 5 bolt holes were stripped. I still have oil filling up the center two plug wells, but it runs fine, so I leave it alone.

I'm a little superstitious about fixing minor things still. I learned with Chrysler products that if something is broken that you can live with, leave it. As soon as you fix that, something else breaks and that one might put you aside the road. So far y Nissans have not conformed to this rule, so maybe I'll start putting some more time into the poor thing.

[Dunky Kong]

Well some of us take pride in oyr cars and like to kepp them in at least decent shape! mainly the reason why i took my time.