93 Camry LE 4 cyl valve cover gasket replaced

[retiredat44]

93 Camry LE 4 cyl valve cover gasket replaced by me today. What a pain in the arse! They sure don't make it easy,, had to move the wiring harness away from the valvle cover/timing belt cover, and disconnected the battery too because of having to maove wiring, and undo the wiring fromt he alternator. Broke the old brittle PCV valve, and replaced that.. found a valve cover gasket with the O-rings for the sparks plugs at Kragen in stock for $23.00.


Nasty dirty... too bad I don't have a solvent wash tank, everything was nasty dirty grimmy... the leak went ona long time and now wil be nice hot having oil push out the back... side...

also hard bending over (degenerative disc disease and pancreas disease) the engine with the thing slanted towards the back and the back of the engine is unaccessable to get much clean, as it is very nasty dirty with all the years of oil and dirty,, I sprayed degreaser and let it soak, the rinsed, but that did little.. anyways,, it was a pain the but but at least now it's one more thing fixed..

[wave180]

Nice, I just removed my 92's Valve cover today, too bad I might not able to put it back today due to the weather here in Cali. The removal procedure took me about 20 minutes, the hard part was the unplugging of the small hose.