Rear timing cover.

[TedAllen]

Just started an engine that I built up 5 years ago before I suffered a heart bypass. It fired first time and after a little adjustment carried on running. I noticed a dribble of oil from the rear timing cover gasket on to the top of the engine...at the nearside. I took the cover off today and the oil was coming between the cover and the gasket rather than underneath. It's a composition gasket supplied by the club...It's a dark brown one, not one of the orange ones.

I'm not keen on these, I couldn't get an orange sump gasket to fit and reverted to the nice, stretchy , cork ones. I used to use cork under the timing cover in the past, what would our engineers out there recommend ? Would a thin latex one work or would there be heat implications ? I have some small sheets of Hallite...any good ?

Also, what is the best gasket cement to use, I have Hylomar, etc. Would silicon do the job ?

All suggestions welcome before I put the old girl back together again !

Ted

[TedAllen]

Sorry....when I typed ' Latex ' I was thinking of something like neoprene.

Ted

[CyrilWhite]

Hi, I had the same problem and cured it by slackening the bolts on the front , allowing the vertical face to"tilt"and then retightening the flat face bolt.
good luck.

[Forumadmin]

Do an advanced search on JowettTalk . For example use the search string '+oil +leak +ring) it should bring up posts like this .
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1136&p=6049&hilit=l ... ring#p6049

There is lots on the subject. A few of us now fit aluminium plates with O rings as replacement for cork gasket.