Valley gasket

PPP38vouge said:

Good evening chaps,
Bit of advice needed please. Is it possible to change valley gasket without removing rocker covers? I was removing some parts for renewal at the the weekend, renewing waterpump, power steering hose, steering damper, and the front crank oil seal, when everything was stripped out I noticed a small pool of oil on top of water pump,on closer inspection the front of the valley gasket looks a bit wet so whilst most parts are off I might as well change the gasket, also, do I need to use holy mar around inlet ports if I replace with a composit gasket.
Can't look up on rave at the mo because my laptop is pooped.
Many thanks in advance, Paul.

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wammers said:

You can use Holy mar if you want but Hylomar is so much better.

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PPP38vouge said:

Thanks for advice chaps, and the ribbing, wouldn't expect anything else.
So I take it it's not imperative to use HOLYMAR then, going to order a land rover one from rimmers not a britpart one?

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grumpy52 said:

bloody hell wammers last time i used hylomar was back in the 70s when l was serving my time at dunderdale and yates in preston we swore by it and swore more at the bloody cars british leyland were sending out from the factory new with bloody oil leaks. well seal was good aswell

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wammers said:

Your choice, but Hylomar is the best gasket seal in the world. Developed for metal to metal joins (No gaskets) on RR jet engines.

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odyssey said:

Is this a secret Range Rover engine option that is only available to the real hardcore enthusiasts?

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grumpy52 said:

bloody hell wammers last time i used hylomar was back in the 70s when l was serving my time at dunderdale and yates in preston we swore by it and swore more at the bloody cars british leyland were sending out from the factory new with bloody oil leaks. well seal was good aswell

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Fergie46 said:

I used to work at Southern Bros Accrington on the tools, my mate used to work for D and Y in Blackburn then, too. My first acquaintance with RR,s, PDI and warranty work. A colleague PDI'd a Marina and it had front drum brakes on one side and disc on the other - those were the days.

This would have been about '75 - '76.

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odyssey said:

That doesn't surprise me at all. In the mid 70s I had to photograph car production lines for a magazine feature, went to Jensen, Rolls Royce, was also supposed to go to Ford but problems with the unions stopped that - ("any Ford employee featured in any photograph not related to the profitability of the Ford Motor Company would require the standard equity modelling fee")

We did however go to BL at Cowley - the Marina line. The whole place was overstaffed by 100%, half the shift were 'working' - one man doing 2 mens jobs, sometimes running out of time when air tools wouldn't reach any more, nuts left loose or missing altogether, the other half were taking their turn at sunbathing on the roof. QC was 'sporadic'.
Horrific. Never went in another BL car.

Alastair

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Fergie46 said:

Rover 3500 V8 SD1's - we were allowed 3 hours for a PDI so extensive were the checks required, mind you a sorted one in manual spec was quite a machine back then - we had one customer who regularly said he could get 103mph in third out of his. (For those not acquainted, they were 5 speed, no overdrive). Doyen of police forces everywhere, just like the ol' RR.

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