Dude I'm telling you, listen to me and it'll come out mint. All these noobs have no idea what they're talking about.

 

thanks guys but i got it and its turning out pretty good, and David i gotchu mayne, imma guy like 2 quarts of oil and some latex paint tomorow thanks for the help....... SIKE.

 

Lolz.

 

The lulz is strong with us...

Remove the gaskets, including the spark plug tube seals (which are usually a bitch to remove... be careful not to mangle the vc). If the gaskets are more like hard plastic and less like rubber, you might need to replace them. Make sure there are no chunks of the old gasket left on the vc. I use brass scraping tools, brass brushes, and my Dremel to do this.

Aircraft stripper is your friend. You can get it in spray form (I think about $8 ) or 'liquid' ($18 ) at the auto parts stores, and maybe at Home Depot or somewhere like that. This shit is strong... buy yourself a set of rubber gloves used for handling chemicals (couple dollars at Home Depot, etc in the paint dept area). And I recommend safety glasses, maybe even long sleeves because this shit stings when it hits your skin, which is what it will do when you're scrubbing away at something with the stripper on it. I think aircraft stripper is called by another name but it eludes me now. Anyways just follow the directions on the labels and you should be fine.

I have a plastic storage bin that I picked up at Big Lots which I use as a parts wash... helps keep your vc or whatever from picking up dirt or grass when you're outside. Garden hose with a typical gun type sprayer... plastic scrapers, brass brushes, etc... and some patience...

You can see a vc I did a few topics down. I had mine powdercoated at my job, but if you don't want to spring for that (though I highly recommend having it powdercoated), like someone else said, use high temp paint for sure. You might even be able to take it to a body shop and have them paint it.

 

I just helped my son do the one on his B20 motor....Bought new v/c gasket....First he sanded every part of the cover,EVERY part of it....Just to get all the wrinkle paint to smooth....Then cleaned out the receiver groove for the gasket, don`t want to do that after it`s painted.....Wiped the whole cover off with lacquer thinner(really good)....Primed the cover with one good coat....He bought some Plasti coat engine enamel paint....Sprayed a light dust coat on it,then he went for 3 good coats and it came out perfect.....Took about 3 hours to do it right.....

 

 

Remove it, clean it with degreaser, Let dry, Spray high temp primer( 2 coats) then spray high temp color. mine took about 3 coats.