Steve in New Hampshire

Well I have to replace the rear cam gasket this week before the burning oil smell kills me! Any opinions on using any sealant on the cork gasket? Old school form-a-gasket or RTV or nothing???

-Steve

sharky47

It's a cork seal - goes on dry.

Steve in New Hampshire

Thanks...I suspected so. I so look forward to puttng it in!! Found the leak while doing the front seals when I was taking the flywheel lock off. I actually had an oil sleeve seal go after only 32K miles. It looks like it hardened up like rock. Never had one do that before. Somebody sell me a cheap part perhaps???

-Steve

xsboost90

dont over tighten it either. Use some locktite on the threads.

hosrom_951

Those bolts should be torqued at 6 ft/lbs i believe

I slightly over did mine, and now it leaks, but no biggie, i have another one and will go in in a few days.

Dave in Chicago

Those 3 little 10mm bolts are notorious for working themselves loose. If you don't loctite 'em, plan on reaching back there to give 'em a twist a couple of times a year.

That part of the engine must be subject to a strange bit of vibration frequency.

crooster

Any tricks to accessing these bolts? I had trouble getting a wrench back there.

Steve in New Hampshire

I'm going to replace it tonight...in looking back there I think a quarter inch ratchet should do the trick, but I'll let you know how it works out.

Now how to set my hand to 6 ft-lbs?????

-Steve

KuHL 951

An angled gearwrench works great on all 3 of them. Personally I used a very thin layer of Locktite 574 on both sides of the gasket after the last gasket dried out in less than a year...seems to have held up well so far. Next time I'm going to just cut my own from non-asbestos gasket material...cork is the wrong product for that spot.

Steve in New Hampshire

You know I think I'll scan the cork gasket before I put it in...so if it does leak I'll have a template!

-Steve

Steve in New Hampshire

Well I finally got around to replacing the gasket. Forget using the 1/4 inch ratchet! I ended up using a little 10 mm wrench from my little set of "ignition" wrenches. Yea, remember the days of points and condensers??? 8^)

All the bolts were pretty loose...and the gasket was obviously the original and was pretty much shot. Really wasn't that bad a job...snugged up the bolts (with some medium strength loctite) and Voila! No more leakage, smoke or smell!!

-Steve

75ohm

Patience!

Personally, I'd rather pull the camtower than fight that small job for an hour.