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removing rocker covers

Postby repowered » Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:21 pm

hey

going to replace my 4age rocker covers with painted up ones..

i have removed the rocker covers off my spare motor and cleaned and painted them up. when i removed them it was realy had to get them off.

whats the best way to remove them without damaging head face. got new gaskets as well - dont need to use a goo aye?
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Postby no_8wire » Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:23 pm

no goo...if they are not coming off just give it a tap with a piece of wood
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Postby repowered » Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:30 pm

no_8wire wrote:no goo...if they are not coming off just give it a tap with a piece of wood


sweet az cheers. looks way minter when there painted up aye.

anyone painted there 4age timing belt covers before lol? i painted the oil cap, came out mint az.
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Postby Bling » Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:01 pm

chuck up some pics 8)

people that detail their engine bays often paint them up or polish them back to metal
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Postby l1ttle_d3vil » Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:40 pm

no_8wire wrote:no goo...if they are not coming off just give it a tap with a piece of wood


what about those stupid washers they ahve on there? i can never get them off without pretty much ripped them out and doing some sort of damage in the process...is there a special tool for it or something?
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Postby Brick » Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:42 pm

the leaver the cover up abit and then the washer things pop up and you can pull them off
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Postby repowered » Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:18 pm

washers came off ok with the other one. is that the ones under the chrome nuts?

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Postby Kender » Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:31 pm

l1ttle_d3vil wrote:what about those stupid washers they ahve on there? i can never get them off without pretty much ripped them out and doing some sort of damage in the process...is there a special tool for it or something?


The washer things conform to the shape of the threads, so I just unscrew them. I wind them off using a small flat head screwdriver, and gentle application of a hammer.
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Postby l1ttle_d3vil » Fri Nov 24, 2006 6:12 pm

repowered wrote:washers came off ok with the other one. is that the ones under the chrome nuts?


yeah they're under the chrome nuts, ive tried unscrewing them but normally they're too tight... :roll:

the rocker covers look awesome, how did you paint just the raised letters blue?
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Postby NOLAW » Fri Nov 24, 2006 6:26 pm

i just grinded back the letters on mine so its all smooth and then attacked it with some fine sand paper and autosol, came up mint, did the same with ma inlet and fuel rail :D
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Postby repowered » Fri Nov 24, 2006 7:27 pm

NOLAW wrote:i just grinded back the letters on mine so its all smooth and then attacked it with some fine sand paper and autosol, came up mint, did the same with ma inlet and fuel rail :D


that woulda looked ok aye!

um just carefully carefully with a fine brush lol.
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Postby BZG_UNIT » Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:11 pm

looks real good man .. nice choice of blue aswell ;)
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Postby Brick » Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:52 pm

might as well show mine off :lol:

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Postby repowered » Sun Dec 10, 2006 11:33 pm

hey

got them on and all sorted - easy enough to get washers off have to turn mine off, really needed new ones there kinda baked hard. spare motors ones were the same.

- lookn stylie brick, wonder how long that paint on the exhaust will last?

- yea that blue and a dark blue were the only shades of blue they had so worked out good.

anyhoo the finished product



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