Q about my new valve cover.

[black86glhs]

Sweet!

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Thanks for all your help and support black86glhs. I really appreciate it.

If everything works out as I hope it will, then I am gonna start getting parts to turbo it. Just a couple of pounds. I want to be sure my engine is ready for it first is all.

[black86glhs]

Your welcome. I hope you have the same success my friend did. I have seen some that were too far gone to save, but they burned oil all the time, not just on startup or when coming to a stop.

[lookin]

Thanks black86glhs.

I went for a hard ride tonight, before I posted, and it looks like things may have begun to resolve.

After putting the new valve cover on, I also cleaned my throttle body and PCV hoses, and then I adjusted the idle down a tad.

Now it idles, very smoothly too, at 900 RPM in P, and the boost/vac gauge shows just a tad 'over' 20"Hg now. The gauge also moves faster now, both when I give it throttle and let off, and it gets more vac when I let off the throttle than before.

I don't understand how a new valve cover could be responsible for all of that, and I sure didn't expect this. I am guessing the valve cover grommets were maybe leaking enough to affect manifold vac? One of them was quite a bit oily, under the metal grommet cover, and both of them were hard and inflexible.

So there is some proof the PCV baffle was restricted I think. The inside of the valve cover looked clean as a whistle though, Thankfully so did the head, cam, springs, rockers, oil return galleys (?), and the rollers didn't appear to have any scuffing at all.

I really do feel better about my engine now. Time for some boost I think.

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The reason why I couldn't understand, how a new valve cover could be responsible for that stuff is, ...... because it just isn't.

The weather warmed up. I cleaned the throttle body. Gauge fluctuation, .... and my personal favorite ...... plain old ignorance and lack of experience.

[3.0l Sleeper]

what about putting a catch can on the pcv system?? woult that not help