Can I reuse intake and valve cover gaskets?
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Can I reuse intake and valve cover gaskets?
Just like it says. Need to find out. I want to say I can but need to ask first before I go to the dealership and order stuff.
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I'd say reuse the valve cover gaskets, just make sure they are seated properly. If the intake gaskets still look good, I'd reuse them. They're cheap enough though if you want to buy a new one.
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My oil pan, valley cover, timing cover, intake and valve cover gaskets have been two different engines. Timing cover, valve cover/front seal and water pump gaskets or 'seals' if you will have been been on and off at least a dozen times. My header gaskets are the original 98 gaskets that came on the car. Only gaskets I replaced on the last engine swap was a rear cover gasket, rear main seal and oil pump pickup o-ring.
Gotta love these LS1s for something, and not scraping/replacing gaskets is one of them
Gotta love these LS1s for something, and not scraping/replacing gaskets is one of them
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Yea well head gaskets, thats a given I suppose
Not only cheap but unless you ever tried to wrestle with a timing cover on a SBC with the pan on or swap a glued on BBC intake quick you just dont know how lucky you are with these. These engines are extremely easy to work on and seal up. Not many low 9 second BBC and SBC cars running around that dont leak a drop of oil.
Not only cheap but unless you ever tried to wrestle with a timing cover on a SBC with the pan on or swap a glued on BBC intake quick you just dont know how lucky you are with these. These engines are extremely easy to work on and seal up. Not many low 9 second BBC and SBC cars running around that dont leak a drop of oil.
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Originally Posted by kp
Yea well head gaskets, thats a given I suppose
Not only cheap but unless you ever tried to wrestle with a timing cover on a SBC with the pan on or swap a glued on BBC intake quick you just dont know how lucky you are with these. These engines are extremely easy to work on and seal up. Not many low 9 second BBC and SBC cars running around that dont leak a drop of oil.
Not only cheap but unless you ever tried to wrestle with a timing cover on a SBC with the pan on or swap a glued on BBC intake quick you just dont know how lucky you are with these. These engines are extremely easy to work on and seal up. Not many low 9 second BBC and SBC cars running around that dont leak a drop of oil.
i know EXACTLY what you mean.
i also love the fact im not stabbing a distributor in 4 or 5 times while i try to not just catch the right tooth, but i have to align the oil pump drive.. i always hated doing that, even after i got good at it.
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Originally Posted by MrDude_1
i know EXACTLY what you mean.
i also love the fact im not stabbing a distributor in 4 or 5 times while i try to not just catch the right tooth, but i have to align the oil pump drive.. i always hated doing that, even after i got good at it.
i also love the fact im not stabbing a distributor in 4 or 5 times while i try to not just catch the right tooth, but i have to align the oil pump drive.. i always hated doing that, even after i got good at it.
Distributer/timing is a whole other thing. Ever assemble a whole motor, use about 3 gallons of silicone on a fabbed aluminum box pan, put it all in the car, go to pre oil it and you forgot to put the oil pump drive rod in. Pretty sinking feeling lol.
But thats the kind of thing you only do once, putting in distrubuters quick and doing plug wires builds charactor though