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Old 09-09-2018, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Ryoken View Post
today, was not a very good day,
went over , drained the water out of cooling system ( making sure the system didn't leak test)., removed some pipes, started putting rocker on, rtv in appropriate places, , moved a little pipe out of the way, but don't know where is goes , got rtv all over the place , then put new gasket on rocker to only realised the gasket was for the right hand side of the engine ,
tried to clean up the crap of the 3 weeks old original gasket , and all achieved was getting rtv everywhere, still don't know where this little thin pipe goes,
the gasket kept falling or being caught on something and coming off,
3 hours later I had lost the will to live, and was contemplating either scrapping it or setting fire to it.
so now I've got to buy another left side rocker gasket
I'm annoyed, VERY annoyed
and my arm and left hand is covered in rtv

and I know where that pipe goes, onto air duck near AFM
There have been times when I have gently tied a fine strand of wire to keep a gasket in place until I could get part situated and get bolts in place. One twist and lots of extra wire to make it easy to remove. With fine wire you can get the bolt in place before removing the wire.
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