Well, did you try it?
Perhaps the diagrams are misleading -- those two nuts are definitely what
holds the valve cover down.
on 6/1/03 8:31 PM, Bill Saidel at saidel@camden.rutgers.edu wrote:
> No apologies here for the novice question. I'm using Larry Macy's
> dictum...don't ask, won't ever know.
>
> I'm doing my 1st engine rebuild. Bought a junker last year for the
> express purpose of rebuilding and reboring its motor for my B - if it is
> not cracked which I'll eventually know before reassembly. It'll be a
> learning experience in any case.
>
> Got the motor out of the car fine.
> It's sitting on the garage floor right now, soon to be put on an engine
> stand. I got the flywheel off after solving some logistical problems but
> it's off. The backplate is off, too.
> I'm doing every thing deliberate, keeping a log with notes of progress
> and questions, taking digital photos, etc. Reading Bentley and Haynes over
> and over, looking at the diagrams and the Moss diagrams. Soon to see them
> in my dreams.
>
> And then I come to a simple problem that I cannot figure out. How do I
> get the valve cover off? Bentley says 'unscrew the two nuts and lift off
> the rocker cover..." Which nuts? The nuts on the top of the valve cover?
> But from the diagrams, they don't seem to attach to anything except the
> valve cover and its external fittings. The Haynes diagram (1.6) doesn't
> have any bolts mounting the valve cover to the cylinder head.
>
> Help.
>
> Bill S.
> '76B
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