Thread: My 70 Ford Pick em up has been markin it territory!!!

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Went to the VA last week in my pick up.
I came home and left it out in front of my house,thinking I would drive it some this week. When I came out to go for a ride, it had a big puddle of oil
under it. Well I knew the valve covers were leaking a little but I guess they gave out all the way now. Normally it would be a easy fix but this 70 pick up has been re done with a 89 fuel injection roller motor out of a Lincoln.
So I had to remove the top of the intake just to get to the valve covers.
Got it all torn down in about 1 1/2 hours then the mosquito's came out to eat on the fat guy under the hood, so the fat guy ran inside before he had a sudden weight loss. So I will have to clean everything up and throw some fresh paint on the covers tomorrow. then put it back together.
These new valve cover gasgets are nice and a buddy used them on his and said that these thing don't leak a drop on his. They are the Fel-Pro blue with rubber and wire that goes around them. I've never seen these ones before,
I always used the black rubber one's or the cork ones, we all know those ones leak. The cork always worked best for me lasting a year or two with out a problem. Kurt

No Kurt, you've missed the point. It isn't leaking oil, it is just rustproofing itself! I knew a guy in Pa who had a 56 Ford and everytime he changed the oil he sprayed the old oil everywhere up under the car, coating everything in sight. Even with Pa salt that thing never had any rust , but it sure did drip a lot.

Let us know how those gaskets hold up, I may have to go to them next time. I am using the reusable blue rubber FelPro oil pan gasket and like it a lot.

Don

I've been using the good Fel-Pro QVS13264T - PermaDryPlus Valve Cover Gaskets with good luck on different SB Fords for years. Just looking at Summit and my-o-my, they have become dearly priced at $34/pair. But they WORK!!!!

As far as skeeters and blood loss, ours are just starting to arrive from the nearby swampland along with the flying fangs, black flies

Yep them are the ones Dave, they are the same number that you gave.
My buddy said I would be able to lift the top of the intake and slide the valve covers out with out disconecting anything, well that didn't happen. HE! HE! I had to remove engine lift plates that were bolted to the exhaust and over hung a bolt on each valve cover.
Then a fixed steel tube heater hose had to be removed and a chrome fuel injection line that actully bends around with the end of the valve cover had to also be removed.
And the plug wires on the passenger all had to be removed, they were to tight to clear the valve cover.
all in all not as bad as I thought it would be. I just cleaned everything up today and painted the black valve covers Ford blue I use the Dupli-Color engine enamel ceramic good to 500 degrees. I used the same color on my 351 Cleveland hopefully it will stand up on the valve covers the cleveland has aluminum, so I am not sure how it will stand up on those. Kurt

Well I got my 70 Pick em up back together today.
I let it run in the drive way for about 30 minutes with no leaks.
The real test will be this week when I drive it over the the VA and back like I did the last time when it started leaking and left a big puddle of oil in my freshly cleaned drive way. Kurt

Well Don: IC2 was sure right about them valve cover gasgets.
I have been driving my truck all over the place and have no leaks at all.
I just put them on and snugged them down good and no problems.
I did snug them a little more then I would the cork though.
Thats gonna be my new valve cover gasget, if I can find them for what ever I am working on.
Kurt

the way the prices of petroleum products are sky rocketing these days, I've seriously been thinking of straining my old used oil thru a fine paint strainer and using it over and over again LOL

Originally Posted by MelloYello

the way the prices of petroleum products are sky rocketing these days, I've seriously been thinking of straining my old used oil thru a fine paint strainer and using it over and over again LOL

MY ... easier yet, just replace the oil filter every couple thousand miles or so and add enough to bring the level to the full mark

Kurt - glad it worked for you

Well Thats what they are doing with trany services now isn't it.
I got the trany serviced and all they did was pump out the old and pump in the new trany fluid.
I asked are you guys changing the trany filter??? No thats not part of the service!!! What!!!
Thats not reccomended for 200,000 miles. I guess I'll be doing that my self from now on!!!
Kurt