I see Macomb is a northern suburb of Detroit.yeah. i did a 12 hour round trip for a 65 pushbutton.. nto doing it again
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Icetech
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yeah bout 10 miles north
Safe area?
Icetech
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it's almost all safe... i feel bad for people that live in places like Texas honestly.... i grew up at 8mile/vandyke (north part of the city) .. through the 70s to now... no real issues... basically don't start ****, won't be ****
I see people in texas have to carry guns just to go grocery shopping.. i don't get how anyone can live like that.. Everyone here has guns but we don't need them to buy food 
it's almost all safe... i feel bad for people that live in places like Texas honestly.... i grew up at 8mile/vandyke (north part of the city) .. through the 70s to now... no real issues... basically don't start ****, won't be ****
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To me he is just trying to make a tough guy statement. Do you realize how fast he can be disarmed from behind? Tough guys don't really need a gun BUT if he has one and he probably does you don't see it until it is needed. Just my humble opinion. I have yet to flash my gun to feel safe. And believe me or not I have been in tough situations.
Icetech
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yeah but it's not just him... there are pics of people down there constantly that will have guns hanging off of them to go shopping.. I can't imagine living life in that much fear all the time.
Oops, I responded to the wrong post.
He is also like 1500 miles away from me
Looking at getting new valve cover gaskets, I don't want to go through all this and then find I have a leak. What is the best thing to use to attach the gasket to the valve cover?
Icetech
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do you have stamped valve covers or cast alum? and alum heads i assume?
ray barton cast aluminum
Icetech
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Icetech
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Those have a steel core and rubber/teflon outer... good stuffs.. just make sure they are the right ones.. hemi stuff is weird
P.S. with 2 machined surfaces and those gaskets you shouldn't need any sealer/glue
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how do they stay on the cover?
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Icetech
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? you use bolts.... lay them on the head.. put the valve cover on and line up the holes... in your situation i would honestly be using like 1.5" long studs for the valve covers.. then you just lay the gasket on put on the cover and then nuts
Icetech
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beautiful place
All good with the bolts, did not know if there was any additional sealant.
Icetech
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ah.. then nope... you could glue the gaskes to the valve covers but no reason to.. machined surface to machined surface seals really well... old heads that were cast iron had a sealing surface like the moon.. just craters and nasty, thats why you use cork with them
Here is the final product and mods to fix the MC mess I had to deal with........................................
Moving forward, I do not want to deal with the same MC issue. I ordered the relo bracket from Mancini and a different MC. With the new setup, modifications still needed to be done to clear everything.
-The studs to mount the MC had to be pressed out, and the holes tapped to receive new 1/2 bolts.
-The passenger side bolt hole needed to be cut out so I could rotate the MC onto the bolt, then tighten it up.
-Shave down the front of the hole to gain more clearance.
-Shave the bolt head itself down to gain more clearance.
The result is:
-The relo bracket can bolt up to the firewall
-Install valve cover.
-passenger side screw is already installed in the relo bracket and then backed out to accept the master to pivot onto the bolt.
-Install driver-side bolt.
Mancini Bracket before mods
Moving forward, I do not want to deal with the same MC issue. I ordered the relo bracket from Mancini and a different MC. With the new setup, modifications still needed to be done to clear everything.
-The studs to mount the MC had to be pressed out, and the holes tapped to receive new 1/2 bolts.
-The passenger side bolt hole needed to be cut out so I could rotate the MC onto the bolt, then tighten it up.
-Shave down the front of the hole to gain more clearance.
-Shave the bolt head itself down to gain more clearance.
The result is:
-The relo bracket can bolt up to the firewall
-Install valve cover.
-passenger side screw is already installed in the relo bracket and then backed out to accept the master to pivot onto the bolt.
-Install driver-side bolt.
Mancini Bracket before mods
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