did a valve cover gasket in a effor to keep the car from dieing comming to a stop due to a possible leat in the gasket and i figured i would take some pics.

pretty clean considering but then again i did only roll over 86000 miles the other day, i need to change the oil too.



whats the marking on the cam mean and any significance of the red stripe on it?

 

Yay! You've mastered removing the valve cover!

The paint is usually for DOHC's so you can tell which cam is intake, and which is exhaust. In this case, it may be a reference marker, or another way to identify the cam (aside from the huge id stamp)?

 

well i do know some times different colors are for different lift and durration but then again you think the huge id stamp would be for that aswell

 

stock cam unless its been re-ground. changing the valve cover gasket has absolutly nothing to do with how the car runs btw.

 

well if there was a big enough leak it would have the same effect as taking the oil cap off while its running. since i have changed it it doesent seem to want to die as easily when i come to a stop any more and its worse when its colder out and its been quite a bit colder lately.

 

check all your hoses then while your at it as obviously the problem was a vacuum leak

 

maybe the red paint is covering up the JB weld used to put the cam back together after it snapped in two.

 

Was it leaking oil like crazy? Indeed... check all the vacuum hoses, cold start valve, and air regulator.

 

i've never seen taking the oil cap off make a difference in how it runs. does it usually? actually, embarrassing story.... i drove all the way to town in my midget with the cap off, and couldn't tell a difference.

 

generally if you can take the oil cap off and it makes no difference it's an indication of vacuum leaks. Usually if you have no vacuum leaks, then you take the cap off now it's like opening up a huge vacuum leak.

 

oh lol the midget didn't have any vacuum except for the timing advance and i'm pretty sure i never had that hooked up. or maybe it wasn't working. i don't remember. and i know the Z has vacuum leaks. that's one of my next projects

 

whats funny is that there is a little wire brush in the ventilation hose... LOOK AND SEE!!! and i havent ever really heard oh a bad valve cover leak... unless it was instaled wrong.. i took mine off and didnt even have to use my new gasket(its just posted up in the corner of my room by itself, well its sitting by my old fuel pump)

 

it was pretty bad, the rest of its been checked except for the advance but i didnt really get any awnsers on the post i made about it.