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Summary: Protect the electrical devices on a vehicle when replacing a valve cover by bagging them up and tying them off when using a solvent spray; learn how in this free auto-repair video.

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By Nathan McCullough
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Nathan McCullough graduated from Nashville Auto-Diesel College with a GPA of 3.5 and received their Craftsmanship Award and Honor Seal. He has managed several automotive facilities...read more

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on 5/13/2009 i appreciate so much you're doing nate i have watched all of your videos and i'm now actually attending a technical school to become a mechanic hopefully own my own shop one day i remember the first ever video i watched of you was when you did brakes on the ford probe and that was i think two years ago. Since then i have been watching all of your videos and i have learnt so much since then and i hope you continue to put videos up. Thanks for putting time into these videos i really appreciate it being a apprentice mechanic myself

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"Hi, my name is Nate McCullough. On behalf of Expert Village, in these clips, we're going to talk about the proper way to remove and replace an engine valve cover that is cracked, excessively warn, rusted out, or otherwise defective. In this clip, we're going to talk about protecting some of the electronic devices on your vehicle. What we're going to be doing to replace our valve cover is, as you can see, the mating surface is pretty nasty. We're going to be using a spray solvent to clean that up. And being that our distributor is located right here, we're going to bag it up and tie it off. Your particular vehicle may not have a distributor. There may be a fuse box or some other piece of electrical equipment you don't want your solvent getting into. It's pretty much straight forward. I'm using a trash bag. You can use any kind of plastic that you want. I'm going to have to unplug my ignition coil wire. Unplug this guy right there...fold him down. You get all these together...put them in my trash bag. It's like I said, depending on your particular engine, you may have some different things that require protection. This one, in particular, does have a distributor and that's pretty much it. Good and protected."

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