Recently purchased my wife a beautiful 1 owner 2005 X Sport (black on black) 70K miles. Installed new autolite iridium plugs and found several rocker cover seals had deformed from heat. Anyone know what the part number for these and the removal/replacement procedure? There kinda important to keep water out of the spark plug channels.

(Will be doing the dreaded oil pan gasket on an upcoming weekend. Thanks to everyone for all the tips. BTW the trans fluid on ramps drain/fill with 14 seconds of idle between three 3-1/2 qt refills and drains worked wonderful. Think I got at least 9 quarts of the old fluid out judging by color during drains. Checked the overflow and only had to let about 1/2 cup out at 100degress before it was set. I also have added a new extra easy suggestion for getting almost all the xfer case fluid out in the thread dedicated to this subject.)

 

BlackJagX2005, go to your local auto parts store and ask them to order you a "Fel Pro VS 50615 R". That will be the valve cover gasket set you will need for your car. You can plan on spending about $70 for it. You can find it on E-bay for a bit less.

As for tips and tricks for doing it, nothing super special. You already know how to remove the intake since you did the plug change. The big thing you need to keep in mind is that when tightening down the valve cover gasket, you just need to compress the rubber gasket just a little bit. You don't need to take it tight and crush the valve cover tight against the block. This will more than likely cause more leaks than it is going to correct. The other thing that I would recommend you look into is getting your hands on a greenie (scouring pad). You want the surface that the gasket touches as clean as possible and free of rust. This pad is good as it is course enough to get through the old gasket and remove the rust, yet not course enough to remove any metal and cause low spots, leading to leaks.

 

On a side note, Autozone has the gasket online for $86, delivered to your house.

 

Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately I may not have described these seals properly. They are not the rocker arm seals. They are hard plasticized circular rubber grommet type seals on top of the rocker cover at each coil/spark plug opening (six in total). The rubber base of the coil pack presses down and seals on these "grommets" helping to keep water out of the spark plug recessed channels. Anyway several of mine have deformed and hardened from heat so I wanted to replace them all.

 

If you are talkign about those, then I would pull one off and walk into your local auto parts store and ask for new seals for a "Ford Duratec V6 coil". see what they have. They should be able to hook you up in no time flat.

 

Bump- any luck on this? I am having the same issue. No one seems to have a clue of what I am talking about,

 

No sorry. Perhaps we're the only two with this issue. I should have photographed it when i was in there doing the plugs. My worst ones were in the rear bank under the intake manifold. If you have any luck please let me know.

 

You might want t coontact the ebay seller. This mught be what you are looking for. As Thermo said the best bet is for the duratec engine.

1996 Ford Taurus DURATEC V6 Coil ZA17 | eBay

 

Just a matter of nomenclature, BUT there are NO ROCKERS involved in the Jaguar overhead cam engine!! Hence NO ROCKER COVERS!!! They are CAM COVERS.

bob

 

Motorcarman, sorry there are No CAM COVERS, those are VALVE GUIDE COVERS, but I think we talking of difference parts here, BlackJagX2005 was talking about the ignition coil seals.

 

BlackJag2005. I think you will find that the parts you are describing are not removable.They are part of the cover. The cavity is sealed with an elongated rubber seal that seals when the covers are tightened down.