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Interesting info re the gold rocker cover and potential replacement engine Jonny-Jimbo. How do we check this further?
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Thanks for your interest and help all! The rocker cover hammered out easily and I'm just waiting for the new gasket to arrive. I know where to find the commission number, Joe. When the new gasket arrives I'll pop up and fit it, look up the number and report back. Prob next weekend. Casper, you mention the last two digits - what do these indicate that we might be concerned? I thought it was just a sequential production line number? Mark, your car looks great. We haven't cleaned Joe's of the 10+ yrs of grime its accumulated sitting in the garage yet but hopefully it will look as good when we polish up the paint and derust the chrome.
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Thanks for the advice. I've come to the same conclusion since posting too - I'm to try reshaping since there is nothing to loose really. If it still leaks, we'll have to get a new one. Also thought I should share a few pics by way of introduction ....so here they are below.
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Hi All, First post here. My brother has just inherited a '61 Herald 1200 which our Grandparents owned from new. We collected it last weekend and I'm working on it with him. Neither of us are experienced mechanics or know Heralds so this is our opportunity to learn. The tappets came loose on our drive home last weekend and in adjusting those we've discovered that someone has previously tried to lever the rocker cover off, bent the edge and scored the covers gasket surface in the process. This explains the fresh oil on one side of the engine at the end of our journey. Please see the photos - does anyone know if this is repairable? We understand that forming a seal with the cork gasket can be tricky anyway so would we just be better off buying a replacement cover. We think the bent cover is a replacement alloy one - seems too light to be steel and it obviously bent easily! Thanks in advance - Dave.