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Originally Posted by Marvelous Marv
That got me thinking--about the mechanic (Numbnuts #3) who tightened down my valve covers so tight that he broke them, and then lined them with some kind of goop to try to make it last until it was too late for me to do anything . Same guy put a fuel filter in my car (it's the @#$ kind that's INSIDE the fuel tank) without a filter. That caused it to fail about a year later.
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About the valve covers, since I've changed my share of valve cover gaskets; when you put the new gaskets on they make this goop you throw on to make it seal better, so that may have been what you saw. There really isn't a reason to go back and do something special to one or even a few bolts since theres a bunch of bolts around the cover. Not that I'm trying to defend him since the repair shop should have torque specs on the bolts in a book somewhere so he must have been too lazy to go get them and the bottom line is he should told you he broke the bolts no matter what.