Valve cover gasket set.......

[93shonuff]

1st question, why the **** are the rubber gaskets so damn expensive. every site and auto parts store says 80 and up. Someone at an advanced autoparts told me that i could put a little rtv or sealant on the spark plug wells and the end of the bolts and that will solve my oil in the plug well problem. 2nd question, how do i get the oil out of the wells without letting it leak into my motor. i seen this posted before but i dont have a vac pump, so please help me out i have every tool in the book but a vac pump.

 

[SHOtimer]

Can't help you out on the price. But, when I first got my SHO my plug wells were completely filled with oil. I used papertowels to soak out the oil. I used small screw drivers to jam the papertowels in there to get it all. Then I stuck small pieces of papertowel onto the tip of an icepick to get it all soaked out before I pulled out the plugs......

Doug

 

[Mr95Gl]

1st question, why the screw are the rubber gaskets so damn expensive. every site and auto parts store says 80 and up. Someone at an advanced autoparts told me that i could put a little rtv or sealant on the spark plug wells and the end of the bolts and that will solve my oil in the plug well problem. 2nd question, how do i get the oil out of the wells without letting it leak into my motor. i seen this posted before but i dont have a vac pump, so please help me out i have every tool in the book but a vac pump.

Forget the rtv in the spark plug wells. Just by the proper gaskets and be done with that. As for removing the oil, just use the sprayer from say a windex bottle, and use it to suck up the oil. The rest you can do as stated above, and use paper towels.

 

[Speedie13]

Forget the rtv in the spark plug wells. Just by the proper gaskets and be done with that. As for removing the oil, just use the sprayer from say a windex bottle, and use it to suck up the oil. The rest you can do as stated above, and use paper towels.

Yeah, I agree. I used the sprayer off of something at work and sprayed about 6 oz worth of oil into a mountain dew can when i did my VC job. The rest was shoprags and papertowels. The gaskets arent all that cheap but if you buy them now and install them its not like you will be buying them again soon....i say just spend the money, do it right and dont worry about it for another 60k. Thatll give you time to save up a little money for parts/gaskets anyway haha

 

[SHOtimer]

Their are many creative ways to get the oil out. But, the last thing you want to do is to allow the oil to just drain into the cylinder.....

Doug

 

[93shonuff]

yep, you guys are right. i didnt even think about the sprayer top. btw have you guys ever heard of this site for your parts. check it out!!!!!spark plugs for some pretty good prices...
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[baySHO_510]

Try to keep the oil from getting into the cylinder, my plugwell oil had dirt, tiny rocks, sand... a bunch of crap you don't want in your engine. I would use a little rtv on the new gaskets to make sure you get a good seal.

 

[Rockledge]

Try to keep the oil from getting into the cylinder, my plugwell oil had dirt, tiny rocks, sand... a bunch of crap you don't want in your engine.

Bingo. It's not so much the oil itself as it is the dirt and crud that's mixed in with the oil.

 

[SHO-NUF93]

I'd never recommend using RTV on a rubber gasket, such as VCs. Except at the base of cam caps, where the gasket goes up and around them. Otherwise, it's unnecessary. You're going to pull the intake to do it, might as well save yourself the trouble and do it right.

And the old rag-and-a-screwdriver works for oil in the plug wells, and, while I never thought of using a bottle sprayer, a pneumatic suction gun always worked good.

 

[baySHO_510]

If you have an air compressor you can blow it out. You can spray a cleaner in the plugwells to break down the oil and repeat it a few times.

 

[SHOck]

I'll add a turkey baster to the mix. One with a small tip. Fill the wells up with carb cleaner afterwards, then suck again. Last thing to use is q-tips for cleaning electronics (they got long wood handles, and be found at radio shack or the like).