I'm pretty desperate at this point.
There's a little rubber insert to pass the pickups' wires through. This grommet forms a line with the cover's mating surface, against the engine case mating surface.
(It's not the three-bolt "points" cover)
So the cover's paper gasket always leaks from where it touches this grommet (sometimes from both faces of the gasket).
The grommet obviously doesn't sit as tight as it should against the engine case mating surface. Perhaps it shrank a bit.
I tried (always with the oem gasket) - victor reinz reinzosil (only over that point), Hondabond 4 - dressed the gasket from both sides - the latter held for about 600 mi. and eventually started leaking as before.
My last attempt was Hondabond 4 again but only at the grommet area, putting a little thicker layer at where it leaks, and the let it dry for 24 hours.
It didn't hold a day.
The surfaces and the gasket were always bone dry.
Should I try to seal it without the paper gasket at all, with Hondabond HT or Victor Reinz Reinzosil (like cases halves are)?
There's a little rubber insert to pass the pickups' wires through. This grommet forms a line with the cover's mating surface, against the engine case mating surface.
(It's not the three-bolt "points" cover)
So the cover's paper gasket always leaks from where it touches this grommet (sometimes from both faces of the gasket).
The grommet obviously doesn't sit as tight as it should against the engine case mating surface. Perhaps it shrank a bit.
I tried (always with the oem gasket) - victor reinz reinzosil (only over that point), Hondabond 4 - dressed the gasket from both sides - the latter held for about 600 mi. and eventually started leaking as before.
My last attempt was Hondabond 4 again but only at the grommet area, putting a little thicker layer at where it leaks, and the let it dry for 24 hours.
It didn't hold a day.
The surfaces and the gasket were always bone dry.
Should I try to seal it without the paper gasket at all, with Hondabond HT or Victor Reinz Reinzosil (like cases halves are)?
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