I need to make a new seal for my valve cover on my 91 XJ Laredo. Its a small leak in the rear of the seal. I cant decide if I should get a felpro gasket or just make a silicone seal. Any opinions? Im leaning more towards felpro.. just seems cleaner and more protection..

 

i run a felt pro rubber gasket with RTV. I RTV'd the gasket to the valve cover and installed as one unit.

You need the rubber grommits no matter what though

 

By rubber grommets you mean the pcv, ccv elbows right? The two things sticking out on either side of the VC. I actually planned on replacing those and cleaning the CCV orifaces in the valve cover itself to hopefully fix my oily air filter issue. Btw, the felpro gasket I found is cork/rubber. With some RTV on both sides of that gasket, it should seal up just fine shouldnt it?

 

No by grommets i mean, Where the bolts mount to the valve cover there are rubber gaskets that pop into the bolt holes...

ANd dont get cork, get rubber.

BTW good idea to replace BOTH ccv/pcv valves. It fixed mine

 

these are the rubber snap in grommets:



There is one for every bolt hole.

 

also to get the bolt closest to the firewall you will need to either bend the pinch seam or use a universal or two to get it.

Also, make sure it is all torqued down to spec, then retorque it down at 10 miles and 100 miles

 

Thanks for all the help.. I looked up some gaskets at NAPA and A/Z.. the only all rubber gasket I found is a $50 one... That's kinda high if you ask me..

 

Correction mine was 30!!!

http://shop.oreillyauto.com/ProductD...umber=VS50458R



Its once in a while you have to do it though.....

 

http://shop.oreillyauto.com/ProductD...umber=VS50458R

 

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I never seen those grommets before. I used a cork gasket because its cheap and alittle rtv on both sides. Dry as a bone now

 

This might be stupid...but the felpro vc gasket includes new grommets. previous gasket had steel sleeve in the rubber grommets...do i need to reuse the steel sleeve?? or go with the rubber grommets only. Thanks guys!

 

Figured it out. Definitely use the original steel posts/sleeves. When you remove the old plastic/rubber grommets, you'll see how the metal sleeves slide into the new grommets. Very obvious. good luck.

 

i dont think the older engines have grommets do they?