This story starts last weekend. I decided that my Valve Cover gasket was old and leaking oil, so I went to Advance Auto Parts and bought one of the Fel-Pro VC gasket kits with the spark plug tube seals and everything. I get everything going and when I try to put the new VC gasket in the groove of the valve cover I could not get it too fit. It was too big. So on Tuesday I took it back to Advance saying that it was too big, like a manufacturer's defect.
I had temporarily sealed up the VC with the old gasket and some grey RTV silicone. I drove around for the week. Now I am leaking oil like a motherfucker, and my dad is pissed and yelling at me for getting more oil on the driveway than I had been.
Fast forward to today when I went to Auto Zone close to work (which is 30 miles from home) and pick up another one of the same kits. Get home tonight to get it on, and WTF this one is too big too. Are they supposed to be too big and shrink to size, or what? Because if they are how the hell are you supposed to get it to seal well?
Monday afternoon I will be taking a trip to the dealer to get an OEM VC gasket.
I had temporarily sealed up the VC with the old gasket and some grey RTV silicone. I drove around for the week. Now I am leaking oil like a motherfucker, and my dad is pissed and yelling at me for getting more oil on the driveway than I had been.
Fast forward to today when I went to Auto Zone close to work (which is 30 miles from home) and pick up another one of the same kits. Get home tonight to get it on, and WTF this one is too big too. Are they supposed to be too big and shrink to size, or what? Because if they are how the hell are you supposed to get it to seal well?
Monday afternoon I will be taking a trip to the dealer to get an OEM VC gasket.
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