Just recently took my valve cover off and had it powder coated wrinkle blue. Followed a thread to put valve cover back on using the torque specs and cracked the valve cover slightly. Sucks. Anyone done this before. Is there a fix or do I have to suck it up and buy a new one. Anyone have one they are looking to sell.

 

Sucks man same thing happened to me. It was a big crack though, oil went everywhere. Had to fork out money for new one?

 

I was afraid of that. I'm looking to find a used one on here with no cracks but if I can't find one by April then I will have to fork out some money for a stupid mistake. Can't believe it cracked so easily. There pretty costly

 

may want to check ft lbs vs inch lbs.

 

I found a thread and it was inch pounds. I read that the inch pounds it listed can be to much. This seems to be a common problem with these valve covers.

 

Cool, its just a common mistake.

 

Same thing happened to me a while ago. These valve covers are very delicate so ever since then I am very very careful to not over tighten the thing.

 

Clean it up good before you JB-Weld it.

 

I have an evo 8 valve cover I'd be interested in selling you if you are unable to fix yours..PM me if you are interested.

 

they are magnesium or something right? brittle

 

Yes they are magnesium. When i powdercoated my VC and had to redo the rivets underneath i took the shavings and burned them. Ooooo pretty colors.

 

Thinking about doing this myself as well. What color did you choose before your unfortunate mishap? Any before after pics?

 

Just buy a new one. I had a tiny crack and tried to JB it. It looked horrible and it still leaked. Ended up buying a new one.

 

The trick is to glue it from INSIDE! :}

 

how can it possibly break so easily?