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Thread: Valley cover gasket

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    There are no bolts into the water Jacket.
    In my experience the major leakage on 3.9s ( from a sample of 1 plus other threads) is that the heads leak at the extreme back and front corners as the block must relax over time. When this is behind the power steering pump you do not notice it and at the back it is also easy to miss.
    Sometimes the inlet manifold leaks at the far back where the blank is on the LH head, but usually a tighten up of the bolt will stop it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DoubleChevron View Post
    Well that's a shame. The only place on ebay I could find the gasket kits was lrpartsrover. They were amazingly prompt to send the gasket kit (I order it Thursday and it was here Friday). I emailed them monday ..... Nothing..... They completely ignore emails if you have issues. I checked there feedback which is almost all positive. The negative/nuetral feedback stating they will not replace or refund incorrectly sent of damaged parts.<br>






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    No 7 port was folded over 90degrees, it kinked like this when I straightened it.&nbsp; There was no damage to get packaging, but I'm thinking something heavy was dropped on the package in transit. (rather than them sending me bent gaskets).

    Its a shame, I've had such good luck buying from the online land rover sellers in the past.

    seeya
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    I followed up lrpartsrover with a 2nd email late last week .... I was unfortunately quite blunt with my impression of their service in the email They replied to the 2nd email within a few hours apologizing for missing my first email. A full new gasket set arrived by by courier to my door ​double wrapped and boxed to avoid damage today ( 1 business day later ). I wasn't expecting another full gasket kit. They obviously get the big thumbs up from me. . Damage by Australia post is not their fault, I certainly didn't expect a full new gasket kit to be sent!
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    Nice result mate and I must say that is some good customer service in the end.
    It is a pitty Aus Post stuffed up by damaging it in the first place but at least now you'll have some spare gaskets if needed urgently


    Trav Man

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    I finally got the motor back in .... Gee's everything takes me forever! I noticed when I had the rocker cover off the dipstick tube wasn't even close to inserted to the stop in the block. so I pushed it back home as much as I could.





    there must be 7litres of oil in this thing! I wonder if that's why it was leaking so bad.

    It fired right up ... and took about 10seconds to find all cylinders... and then the universe disappared in a cloud of smoke ..... I'd forgotton I pumped oil down into the inlet and plug holes I think I might have sent a smoke cloud over the entire suburb

    I set the timing to 10degrees and took it for a drive up and down the street. It pulls like a freight train. I reckon it has a torque/towing cam fitted. It hauls ass on petrol until about 4200rpm .... where it just dies. I'll try it on gas to see if its the same tomorrow. Its not leaning out and dying though .... so I reckon its cammed for low down torque and pulling power.

    It will be interesting to see if I have a working idle stepper motor .... I've been drowning them in petrol due to the failed pressure regulator without realising.

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