Well, yesturday when I was trying to fall asleep, I was thinking about 1.6-1 rockers and how they hit the valve covers. So I tried to figure out a way to get rid of that problem without using the good old hammer. Well this is what I thought of. If I took 2 valve cover gaskets, glued them together and then used them as one. Thus it would raise the cover by an extra 1/8".
So my question is would this work?

 

Sounds good to me....

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You need a girlfriend . But it sounds good to me! A car is a piece or metal. You can do whatever you want to it.

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only thing i can forsee are leaks

cuz when the glue dries.......

look around and see if anyone makes extra thick gaskets

otherwise it doesnt sound 2 bad

 

Sounds good to me, But I agree you need a Girlfriend... although at the same time the Girl friend is a hard person to make understand that you need 1:6 roller rockers...

 

well heres the solutio. And don't tell me I need a G/F cause I have one, I just think of this stuff all day and night.
Get the two gaskets glued togeather, or better yet resined togeather with fiberglass resin then wrap the tops the outter sides and the bottoms with aluminum flashing. Cheap easy to bend work with ect, then where the meatal comes togeather put a thin and I mean THIN layer of reesin then put Black silicone on the tops and bottom of the aluminum and get it one the car and tightened down FAST. Now as the resin cures it will be compressed by the two metal edges so when its dried it will not let the two come apart. Now the oil cannot get past the Silicone(we know this cause we done it too many times) and it most certainly will not flow through the aluminum. You have a nice looking 1/8-3/16 aluminum spacer that does not leak.

Ta daaaaaaaaaa. man I shoulda been an engineer. Thats ok when I was in High School I drove my architech, Tech Drawing and engineering teacher NUTS cause I did this stuff naturally and he wanted to know how I could do a 9 week project in 2 weeks and have it right. with doing very little of the math. PS I HATE MATH.

 

I'm pretty darn sure that Hot Rod did this (stacked two valve cover gaskets) to test out some rocker arms. I think that's the same article where they mentioned an aluminum spacer sold for such a purpose (but for a V8).

If you're a welder and have some spare steel valve covers, you could always use two to make one... but that'd be a pain in the rear!


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Thinking about it all day and night.....Yea we will be telling you that you need a G/F soon.

 

Wouldn't the RTV be good enough to stop any leaks. It would help hold the gaskets together and wouldn't shrink so it wouldn't warp or tear the gasket any. When you use any sort of glue on surface like a gasket it will shrink as it dries. This will tear or warp the gasket.

 

resin does not shrink as it dries it simply hardens. And to stack 2 gaskets togeather simply RTV'ing them togeather will not stop engine vibration from creating leaks as it literally shakes them apart. When the 2 are resined togeather they are fused into one part, able to support 250 pounds easy(trust me I made a valve cover outta Carbon fiber cloth that was .0050 thick and it could support my 190 pound *** ) so I would think that 2 thick gaskets will soak up more resin and be stronger as one piece, the aluminum flashing is there as a safety and just in case thing. Not to mention make it look better.

 

(Just kiddin about the G/F thing.

I hear you on this I am in Engineering, what a Bitch, I could do construction Courses and have a month off at the end cause they were so easy, But math blows, I know I can do it, its just that you have to be a Math genius that means nothing, to get the papers saying you can do it... eh whatever... lol.

I like the Gasket Idea, just hte glue sounds as if it would be a hair to weak, and I can see leaks in the future...

 

Glue What glue? RESIN. Totally different. I resined a sheet of 20"X36" a few weeks ago 2 sheets thick so maybe 90 thousands of an inch thick let cure for 3 days and I could walk on it with it suspended 2 feet in the air with it only bowing 4 inches. 190 pounds plus clothes and big *** biker boots. I beleive the resin I am using now has 190,000 PSI tinsile strength, have to look at the label again but I think its near that. So engine vibration would have nothing on it.