Fel-Pro Gaskets
Fel-Pro Gaskets What’s do you guys think about fel pro valve cover gaskets ? I think there junk. I have been breaking in my new engine and have had the valve covers off 3 times adjust valves and every time I take them off I have to cut a section out of them to make them work once’s they get hot .Im running a BTR Valve cover gasket on the driver side no trouble.2 rounds of Driven break in oil and changed 2 Penns oil and Lucas ZDDP today For the 3 round .shooting to have it dyno next week . anyway anybody else having this trouble ?
They do appear to be too long, but if your patient and work the gasket backwards, you can get it to go in. I thought that the gasket must have been an inch too long, but I ultimately got it to go. Took a while. I do like the GM gaskets better.
What’s do you guys think about fel pro valve cover gaskets ? I think there junk. I have been breaking in my new engine and have had the valve covers off 3 times adjust valves and every time I take them off I have to cut a section out of them to make them work once’s they get hot .Im running a BTR Valve cover gasket on the driver side no trouble.2 rounds of Driven break in oil and changed 2 Penns oil and Lucas ZDDP today For the 3 round .shooting to have it dyno next week . anyway anybody else having this trouble ?
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I don't have any trouble at all with them, once they're properly installed into the groove in the VC. If they're installed not standing up perfectly straight all the way around, there's not a chance they'll seal the first time, let alone any times after that. Not getting them in there PEFECTLY is about the only thing I can see that would cause trouble.
I don't think FelPro is any different from any other mfr about that. Only other ones I can specifically recall using were Mahle, and they weren't materially different in any way from the FelPro. Might have been a different color (brown instead of blue?) but other than that they were indistinguishable. Both seem to work just fine if installed correctly.
I use a bit of white lithium grease on them to help them slide in easy. Oil, trans fluid, gear lube, any other kind of NON-FIBER and/or NON-MOLY grease, silicone spray, etc. etc. etc. would probably work just as well. Just a matter of your own personal preference.
I don't have any trouble at all with them, once they're properly installed into the groove in the VC. If they're installed not standing up perfectly straight all the way around, there's not a chance they'll seal the first time, let alone any times after that. Not getting them in there PEFECTLY is about the only thing I can see that would cause trouble.
I don't think FelPro is any different from any other mfr about that. Only other ones I can specifically recall using were Mahle, and they weren't materially different in any way from the FelPro. Might have been a different color (brown instead of blue?) but other than that they were indistinguishable. Both seem to work just fine if installed correctly.
I use a bit of white lithium grease on them to help them slide in easy. Oil, trans fluid, gear lube, any other kind of NON-FIBER and/or NON-MOLY grease, silicone spray, etc. etc. etc. would probably work just as well. Just a matter of your own personal preference.
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