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From Quick Guide: All About Gaskets

Summary: Install a new valve cover gasket into your valve cover by starting from the center and working your way out; 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. Nathan has managed several automotive facilities...read more

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briangeles said

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on 4/2/2009 There are so many videos on valve cover gasket, but I can't find anything on the actual head gasket itself! Frustrating.

bing4 said

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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 the proper way to install your valve cover gasket into your replacement valve cover. This happens to be a kind of complicated gasket. Just being that it doesn't have individual gaskets for your plug galleys, it's all wrapped together. What you're going to want to do is when you take it out of the box is just get it all straight so there's no twists and curves in it, and set it on top of the valve cover in kind of a rough position where it's going to go. I always start from the center and work my way out. Kind of like your rolling a pizza dough or something like that. You start by seating this portion here, right where the bolt hole goes, and I'm going to seat this plug galley gasket right there. From there, I'm going to work around where my camlobes go...Alright, there you go. As you can see the gasket is firmly seated in the track all the way around and it's seated in our plug galleys very good. Alright, there you go. That is the proper way to seat your valve cover gasket."

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