I thought I would tighten the screws on my valve covers to possibly solve (or just improve) my oil leak problem and noticed that they were all kind of loose. I could turn each one of them one full rotation before I got any significant resistance. Is this normal?? Should they be that loose?

Bryan

 

They tend to loosen up after a while..tightening them up to spec may stop/lessen your valve cover leak..

 

you should probably just replace the valve cover gaskets, then retighten correctly. For the VG, the gaskets aren't very expensive.

I don't know how difficult they are to access, though. I replaced the front on my VE, but haven't touched the back one.

 

ya i noticed the same with mine. they were really loose and i tightened them. i think it helped the leak

 

On the VG you have to remove the air intake plenum to access the front valve cover gasket.

 

dont over tighten them the fsm spec is like 8-10 ft lbs i think
so thats like a little past finger tite
(i tend to overtighten stuff though a little)
i guess im buff