Help! Cork rocker cover gaskets near Mere.

Does anyone have any rocker gaskets (type 1engine). I'm stuck near Mere, Wilts, with a very badly leaking (new) set...

 

Have you tried refitting yours, in case they were pinched? Or maybe your bales (wire rocker cover retaining clips) arent tight enough - should need a screwdriver to lever them off. Good luck!

 

Use paper towels and alcohol/solvent (meths/ whisky ) or washing up liquid in warm water to clean up the gaskets and covers. Use some contact glue to stick gaskets to covers and carefully refit.

 

If you have any grease or vaseline coat the gaskets and refit .this holds them in the right place.

Ps im in cork at the moment

 

got some here in Australia,but that wont help

 

I've posted sillier things over to our benighted friends in the Disunited Kingdom.

 

Free next day delivery?

 

^this

 

Thanks guys. Tried refitting and limped to a Halfords. Sadly I had fitted silicone gaskets thinking they'd be good but they're not. Have patched up with silicone gasket sealant as a temporary measure but it is still leaking, only not as fast. I keep topping up with oil and it's getting us there... Once in the Gower I shall go over to FBI and see if they can sell me some Cork ones, and maybe some mew springy arm things.

 

Got some near Portsmouth

 

Very kind - I'm in Wales now!

 

In Wales now but thank you. Hopefully I'll make it by refilling the oil every so often...

 

Go to Halfords, get a tube or RTV, that will fix it

 

GSF sell them

 

So do Waitrose.

 

Thought that the silicon gaskets were the bees knees ?

 

M

No, like oxygen free copper speaker cables they are more expensive, so they must be better.
The cork/ neoprene ones manage to combine all the correct properties, and come "free" every time you buy a gasket set..

The silicone ones should work as well as gaskets, but they are more floppy so they wont stay put while you put the covers on.

 

Where in wales are you headed? I’m in Pembrokeshire with brand new cork gaskets here.