What the tool does as you can guess is press the timing cover down to have proper tension on the bottom part of it's gasket, otherwise it will leak. As long as you can find a way to compress the timing cover to the same height as the head surface when you tighten it you will be fine without the special tool. I am soon to do this same job on mine as the timing covers are leaking now, and I only want to go in there once.

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