how to remove valve cover baffles (how to clean your valve cover)
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how to remove valve cover baffles (how to clean your valve cover)
Stupid me I sandblasted the cover, I thought I cleaned it out, but I was still worried about the stuff under the baffles. So, after some decision making, I decided to take the baffles out, cleaned them (there was a ton of sand under there, even after cleaning it for 3 straight hours, glad I did it ), tapped the vc, and installed bolts so I could take them out again if I ever wanted to change colors.
Valve cover untouched:
Tools to remove the stock "rivets"
Tap the tops of the stock rivets, they should break away clean
What the underside of the baffles look like:
Sand, the black spots are all sand. I cleaned this beforehand for 3 hours with a hose, hot and cold water, soaking in simple green, sifting through the bathtub, etc:
After tapping the vc with m5 x .80 tap:
Done, installed bolts with washers, red loctite, and torqued to 10ft/lbs.
I also added a drop of JB Weld on the bolt tops to ensure they wernt going anywhere. Let me know if you have any questions or comments.
Valve cover untouched:
Tools to remove the stock "rivets"
Tap the tops of the stock rivets, they should break away clean
What the underside of the baffles look like:
Sand, the black spots are all sand. I cleaned this beforehand for 3 hours with a hose, hot and cold water, soaking in simple green, sifting through the bathtub, etc:
After tapping the vc with m5 x .80 tap:
Done, installed bolts with washers, red loctite, and torqued to 10ft/lbs.
I also added a drop of JB Weld on the bolt tops to ensure they wernt going anywhere. Let me know if you have any questions or comments.
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I installed bolts instead of using rivets. And yes, there is some space to add some threads.
Why would you use allen heads instead? I thought about this, but I had the sockets for these heads, and I didnt have a way of ensuring they were all torqued down the same with an allen head. Are allen heads stronger?
Why would you use allen heads instead? I thought about this, but I had the sockets for these heads, and I didnt have a way of ensuring they were all torqued down the same with an allen head. Are allen heads stronger?
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I have not tried it on yet to be honest, but I followed this guys write up and hes using the tall allen head bolts and safety wire, so I'm guessing I should be good to go. Thanks for the input!
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when riveting or using bolts what material are you using to bound the magnesium and steel? Just basic aluminum? Are there any considerations as far as corrosion that would make you lean towards another metal for the rivets/bolts?
Also, I know Mitsubishi uses Aeronautical rivets, but can standard rivets work just the same?
Thanks for the information.
Also, I know Mitsubishi uses Aeronautical rivets, but can standard rivets work just the same?
Thanks for the information.
#13
Yeah I was looking for one but then I realized that if I did this, I could change up the look of the bay very easily with having a buddy with b17, sandblast cabinet, and powder coating. I like to switch things up a lot usually.
This has seen regular street driving and the drag strip three times since I've done it and everything seems to be in there just fine
Thank you for the kind words.
This has seen regular street driving and the drag strip three times since I've done it and everything seems to be in there just fine
Thank you for the kind words.
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I did this to my valve cover. Put ~7500 hard miles on it. Bolts did not fall out. Used same bolts with lock washers and red locktite. Also have 3 -12 fittings on the valve cover. 2 of them go to my catch. One is off the back of the block and vents into the head. Reason it vents into the head is that there was a lot of oil coming out of it so I decided to dump the oil back into the head and the gases would exclave out the other 2 -12 lines.
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