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**Panther37** · 11-10-03, 2:25

Now the cleaning of the HLAs is done. Since your valve cover is off, I'd suggest cleaning the outside of that too. If you can, get it sandblasted to get it extra clean. Make sure you wash out the whole valve cover with water and make sure it's DRY. I don't know how safe this is, but if you don't want to wait as long for the cover to dry, make sure the oil cap and PCV valve gasket are off the cover. Then put it across 2 burners of a gas stove. Put the two burners on low. If you're not carful, you can heat the cover to hotter than it gets from normal engine heat. Using the stove to make it dry quicker is not a safe thing to do. Now you can take the HLAs and Rocker arms out of the WD-40 and drip dry them.

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Panther37 The Mod With the Mostest. Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Patrick AFB, FL, USA Age: 27 iTrader: (0)	Now the cleaning of the HLAs is done. Since your valve cover is off, I'd suggest cleaning the outside of that too. If you can, get it sandblasted to get it extra clean. Make sure you wash out the whole valve cover with water and make sure it's DRY. I don't know how safe this is, but if you don't want to wait as long for the cover to dry, make sure the oil cap and PCV valve gasket are off the cover. Then put it across 2 burners of a gas stove. Put the two burners on low. If you're not carful, you can heat the cover to hotter than it gets from normal engine heat. Using the stove to make it dry quicker is not a safe thing to do. Now you can take the HLAs and Rocker arms out of the WD-40 and drip dry them.