Re: Cracked Cam Covers

["Henrik H Johansen" <two-h@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon,

I think you just might have hit the 64K answer on this one, I did tighten
the middle ones and go out in a circle, and it was the middle ones that
cracked.

Thanks

Henrik Johansen, ARA, San Francisco


- ----- Original Message -----
From: Simon Favre <simon@domain.elided>
To: Alfa Digest <alfa-digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Monday, November 30, 1998 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: Cracked Cam Covers


>Me neither, but I think I know what's going on now.  At first I
>suspected over-torquing, but another possibility came to mind.  The
>D-shaped seals at the rear of the cover push up on the cover.  If you
>tighten the center cover nuts first, you might crack it in the middle.
>I've always run the back ones down all the way first to make sure the
>D-seals get compressed before tightening the others. This prevents the
>cover from getting overstressed in the middle. Are the people who have
>cracked covers tightening the center nuts first, like they would do on
>the head nuts?
>
>>Cracked Cam Covers? In all my years of Alfa ownership I've never heard
>>of such a thing.
>

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