[helicoil and valve cover leaks]

I'm away for the weekend right now, so I can't answer many questions. I haven't done anything since last sunday.

 

Flow;

One of the bolt holes had to be drilled all the way through, iirc, it was the one closest to the oil spout, so that would be top right.

 

I'll be able to get the other answers sunday evening.

[helicoil and valve cover leaks]

Been slowly getting an EA82T back together. Last weekend I was putting the passenger (non-distributor) side cam and everything back on. While putting on the 4 bolts for the valve cover I stripped a couple of them. The strange part is, I couldn't even tell I was stripping them till it was to late as the bolts never even got hand tight. So either I don't know my own stregth, or the threads had already been damaged when the previous owner had rebuilt the engine.

 

So, tore everything apart and helicoil'ed all the valve cover threads, and the threads on the cam retainer (they were stripping too). I then decided to be on the safe side, I went to helicoil the same offending threads on the other side of the engine (distributor side), only to find that some one else had already done it.

 

I then remembered that the passenger side was the one that always had the "Subaru valve cover leak", but the driver side never had a problem.

 

Correlation doesn't always imply causation, so I was wondering if anyone else on the board had noticed if helicoil'ed valve cover bolts helped provide a better valve cover seal?

[Looking for good head gasket sealant]

Thanks for the help guys. I installed the heads this weekend sans sealant.

 

As far as the cost of the gaskets, the head gaskets came in a rebuild kit. head, valve covers, and various coolant, intake, and the turbo exhaust gaskets all for a little over $100.

 

The kit is made by Felpro, and it can be found on Autozones web site (that's where I found it).

 

I was curious about the sealant issue because the haynes manual doesn't really stress it, and who ever rebuilt this engine before me used _way_ to much. Areas of the water jacket between the heads and the block were actualy plugged with sealant. We think it might have caused hot spots which cracked the heads that were originaly on there.

[Looking for good head gasket sealant]

I'm rebuilding a ea82T, and I just got some rebuilt heads. The gaskets are out of a Felpro rebuild gasket kit I got at the local Autozone.

 

I was just wondering what people recomend as far as head gasket sealant.

 

Information on other sealants (for coolant, etc.) are also appreciated.

 

A Gibson.