Perfect timing with battle of the imports tomorrow. I was replacing a bad valve cover gasket and those rubber grommet deals for the spark plug holes and when I put the VC back on, the nut on the driver's side closest to the firewall that holds the valve cover down screwed down, but then stopped tightening. I tried tightening or loosening it, and it wouldn't move down or up. I tried pulling it out, but it won't either so I don't think the stud is snapped. The valve cover sits pretty flush as it should, but I'm going to have to get this bitch off eventually, how would I do this? Is it going to leak if I leave it like this? (all the other nuts are tightened down properly)

Here's a pic of how it sits:

 

Shouldn't leak but I wouldn't trust it. I snapped the stud once.. found a civic hiding in the woods and stripped some parts off of it. The valve cover was good for a day, no leaks.. i didnt even have a bolt on the top

 

put silicon around it to seal it for now, and when you have th remove it even IF the stud snapped it can be replaced with a new one as long as nothing stays inside the thread in the head.

 

heh. :P

 

LOL

 

bastard! Haha... man I'm trying to get an internship and they always want to see some of the ---- I've done.. so that's what the site is for. I stick it on my resume because ******* like Boeing will take one glance at your resume and that's it. Yeah, I know it's cheesy as ----.

...honda closes in like 1/2 an hour.. I think I'm just gonna have to put silicon all around that general area.

 

Yeah, I saw some of your Solid Works stuff. I wish I was patient enough to do that junk, stenseltizm on here uses that program I believe.. kids a genius