Re: 1928 6 cyl lifter cover gasket

Posted by DavidM On 2015/1/2 15:16:27

I believe you are referring to the side plate over the valve clearance adjusters.
On the ones I have seen the gasket was originally fitted between the inner and outer plate then the tubes for the holding bolts flared to hold it all together.

Its quite a thick cork gasket - about 1/8" from memory- and sometimes it is still OK but if it needs replacing you have the choice of opening out, or cutting away, the flares (with difficulty) and replacing the gasket as it was originally made or leaving a part of the old gasket behind the inner plate and cutting it away on the sealing face and making the new one to fit around it with a gasket adhesive to hold it in place.
Hope that makes sense.