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Originally Posted by ermax
The packing on the timing cover only gets close to one oil hole to the right hand head and even that one has a decent size gap between it and the packing. The packing also have a grove that the packing sits in which should keep it someone isolated. You would have to go crazy nuts with the packing to get it to bleed into that gallery. The only other thing the packing routes around are the 32 bolt holes.
Here is a clip from the manual. There are some places with packing in the middle of the cover that people may confuse as oil galleries but they are not. I marked those in red. They are just bolt holes. The one and only oil gallery near the packing I marked in green. The only other gallery in the timing cover is the pickup from the pan which you can see is very far from packing.
All I am saying is I don't see the timing cover being the big risk with regards to packing. It's the block halves and the heads. |
Ya. Sorry. Reading back it most certainly looks like I meant only the timing cover. I just sort of picked it as the most commonly removed part. To be more clear my thesis covers any and all parts that use the sealant. The issue is sealant wherever it comes from not the cover.
I just don't understand what happened to using proper gaskets really.
Pretty difficult to say how much force he used. Looks to me like he just randomly picks some off with zero effort.