New 360 aluminum valve covers available?

[Thomas DeBusk]

Does anyone know where I can get new aluminum valve covers? I've re-sealed the original metal ones on my 360 3 times now and they still leak. The metal is too weak to hold b/c the previous owner cranked it down too tight...

[Matt W]

Edelbrock did and still does i think, and Offenhauser did and prolly still does. They Edelbrocks i had had leaks in between the fins because they weren't finished properly.
Performance Automotive Warehouse carries Edelbrock stuff, Offenhauser may be harder to get a hold of. Hope this helps.

[Millerluck]

Is it to late to knock the holes back out with a ball-peen hammer from the under side?

Check this out. Oucheee!
http://www.ep.com/js/mi/c0/b0/v0/1063750.html

Also Edelbrock makes chrome ones for the AMC 360.

4 WheelDrive Hardware sells them for $49.95. Part #4431
www.4wd.com (http://www.4wd.com)

Later

Larry Miller

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[Matt W]

Dude! beatin on cast aluminum is a good way to ensure no one will use it again,...CRACKY CRACKY. http://www.ifsja.org/ubb/wink.gif Especially if its seen head heat, and motor oil! my old ones were cracked around the bottom from some turkey at a garage torking the piss out of em when he installed new gaskets...same guy left an oily rag on my left header...Thats when i decided to start doing my own wrenching on my jeep!

[Millerluck]

Hang on now. http://www.ifsja.org/ubb/smile.gif

I was tring to save him some mony, and re-use the old covers.

Read carfully. Thomas DeBusk said he re-sealed his metal ones 3 times. This is an old trick to freshin up old metal covers.

I hope this clears this up

Later

Larry Miller



[This message has been edited by Millerluck (edited April 30, 2001).]

[Howiej]

summit has a set of Edelbrocks, (don't think that they are aluminum)-EDL-4431-$46.95
P.A.W has the same ones for 40.95-EDE-4431, they also have Offenhauser OFF-5773 which are aluminum $173.95.

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Amc 360

[Dan Grdovic]

JC Whip-me has chrome covers very reasonable. I posted a question about it before the board got hacked and somebody said they had them and they were fine.

[Matt W]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Millerluck:
[B]Hang on now. http://www.ifsja.org/ubb/smile.gif

I was tring to save him some mony, and re-use the old covers.

Read carfully. Thomas DeBusk said he re-sealed his metal ones 3 times. This is an old trick to freshin up old metal covers.

I hope this clears this up

Later

Larry Miller


I guess i'm unclear as to what thomas HAS...old aluminum v/cs, or steel ones. if you hammer on aluminum ones they most likely will crack out. I impied from his post that he had OLD aluminum V/Cs and was looking for NEW Al v/cs. Maybe he has old steel v/cs and isn't looking for old used Al v/cs. IDON'TKNOW! http://www.ifsja.org/ubb/wink.gif thomas, care to clarify?

[Thomas DeBusk]

Yeah, I have the original STEEL covers, which now have the holding power of tissue, precisely because they have been beat on.

[This message has been edited by Thomas DeBusk (edited April 30, 2001).]

[401chief]

paw sells the offenhauser cast aluminum ones, i just saw them in their latest catalog

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"If it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is"

[Matt W]

you should be able to find stock ones at any junkyard if you don't wanna spend the extra dough for Al ones. they're the same for 304/360/401 except i think 401s have a boss stamped in the top for a breather if you wanna punch a hole and put one...i'm unsure of which actually have this but i got some somewhere! Maybe they just came on later (or earlier) model amc v8s...

[kyrel]

I have a set of metal ones that are fine if you want them let me know