Wierd thing happened 2day- valve cover came open! Options

[Scott-thundercat]

so today i'm going up a hill and a ton of oil smoke starts coming out the back. i thought it was one of my pushrod tubes whos leak i've been fighting for a while now. stop after i get off the freeway- look under see a ton of oil just dripping off the heat exchanger. drive a little further and stop at a gas station after blowing a bunch of oil smoke. buy some oil- check again to see where leak is coming from- hmmmm valve cover doesnt look right.... hmmm- WTF the bailing wire is not holding it on! the bailing wire slipped off the valve cover somehow and is rotated to the bottom of it's arc. the valve cover is free floating and all that was holding it on was the silicon on the gasket at the top- just freely flowing oil out the bottom where it was loose! put the bailing wire back on and now just have to worry about all that oil slowly cooking off. any suggestions on removing the oil residue?

really wierd stuff.

[shaggy]

try using carb or brake cleaner.

use gloves that stuffs nasty and be careful the carb cleaner eats through gloves.

might take alot of cleaner but the chemicals mixed with the compression from the can take off oil and grease really well.

if you have an auto zone(not any flaps) near you get their generic sore brand brake or carb cleaner.
its higher pressure and works much much better(trust me ive used TONS of it).
much better than brakekleen or whatever its called.

home that helps
-jim