Push rod cover leaks after 3 fixes (1 Viewer)

[Joe Egolf]

Got new gasket from Cdan, checked , cleaned and straightened the cover installed and snugged it down carefully and evenly ,leaked in a few days .Lived with the leaking for a year. Removed everything again and did the two large bead repair after removing gasket and cleaning everything again.I let both large beads cure overnite and added a little fresh rtv before re installing the plate , leaks again.The oil is NOT coming down from the rocker cover area. It seems to leak at the front lower area of the cover . I carefully tighten all the bolts and it will lessen somewhat?? Is there another problem in this area?? I just ha8te oil leaks.

 

[Kynot62]

Since I made a new oil pan out of 1/8 plate I will probably do the same for the side cover when I get around to fixing my side cover oil leak. Does anybody have a 3B that doesn't leak out the side cover?

Tony

 

[eleblanc]

The cork gasket is crap. I hope you remove it. When i change mine i changed the cork gasket and like you it kept leaking. Use loctite on the screws, that fixed the leaking for me.

 

[Chang-kuao-lo]

try using "the right stuff" instead of rtv silicone in addition to the loctite on the bolts.

 

[amaurer]

How warped is your cover? Every time your PO tried to "fix" it by cranking down the bolts the cover bends a bit...

 

[Joe Egolf]

All of your input makes sense,I did remove the new cork gasket and did it with two fairly large beads of black gasket rtv .I;m gonna try loctite on the front bolts before doing it all over again. When I snug up the front bolts,[They seem to loosen over time] it almost does not leak so "maybe " a rework with loctite will work

 

[Bryan062087]

When it leaks where does the oil go? Whats characteristic of side cover leak?

 

[Joe Egolf]

Oil runs down side of engine on right side of engine - in my case RHD side,collects around base of top of pan and in my case also around the front of the engine water pump area