Do not use anything with your valve cover gaskets, there is no need.  The valve
cover is the same as all the old air cooled vw engines (bug, bus...) and they
don't leak unless you have damaged the cover, bent the retaining spring, or
using a pep boys gasket that's too thin.  BTW all of these parts are cheap.

Hotch
86 Vangon GL
89 Jetta GL
Philly

"Greenamyer, William L" wrote:

> Did an adjustment on the valves this weekend.  Some of it went fine.  Seems
> like some of the valves don't move the way I think they should or there is
> some spots on the adjusting screws or something.  Haven't figured it out
> yet.  Also, it seems that the last people to rebuild the engine appear to
> have glued the valve cover gaskets into the covers.  Is there some adhesive
> that is used for this?  I understood that you didn't use or need adhesive.
> Just trying to find out what kind of a mess I might be getting myself into
> if I start pulling out the gaskets and find that I am going to end up having
> to glue the new ones in to fix scratches or something in the present valve
> covers.
>
> Anyone got any ideas?
>
> William

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