Valve Cover Mystery
 

The mystery begins, I pulled my valve cover off just to replace the gasket...which went to cleaning up the valve cover...to its headed to my powder coater. He came and took a look at the cover and told me I had to remove a couple plates on the underside of the valve cover, one which has a rubber gasket. My question is what is these plates called, specifically the one with the rubber gasket. I want to just replace it since I have the engine ripped apart but running the part number that is on it I can't find any matchs. The plate in question is attach to the side that the breather hose attaches to the valve cover and I assume that it is there so the breath hose doesnt suck up any oil being sprayed around by the cams and oil return tubes that are attached to the plate. I attached some pictures of everything in question. So the phrase of the days is "NAME THAT PART".....any help would be nice. Thanks:confused:

It doesn't appear to be a replaceable part, it's probably sold with the valve cover. You are correct, that plate seperates air from oil so you don't blow your oil out the vent. Just use some RTV sealer when reassembling. The copper stuff should work good as it can take the most heat.

While on the subject of valve cover removal, how much trouble is it to remove the cover to be powdercoated, then reinstalled? What parts need to be replaced?

CirrusSR22 wrote up a really nice article with pics: http://www.318ti.org/forum/showthrea...ht=valve+cover

It's pretty easy.

The article helped, but it was very easy to do, prep for power coat was a matter of a steel brush and a drill to remove everything off the cover. My powder coater said he'll do a bead blast on it to get it good and clean. As far as down time it takes a couple of days for it to get finished and returned to you, usually it depends on what colors the powder coater runs each day. The key is to get a good in with someone in the biz and you can get parts back in 24 hours like me. I'll post some pictures after I when I get it back....should be tues or wed...depends when I can run it over to him