Valve cover pads


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By DANIEL TINDER - 9 Years Ago
??!!!   Never even heard of these before.  Does anyone have any experience with, or knowledge about them?  Maybe a stopgap/first-step gimmick for the common plugged oil passage problem, before installing the bypass kits so popular in the 60s?  If you repeatedly removed the covers and soaked the pads in oil, it might extend the life of your valve gear (assuming you burned/leaked enough to avoid overfilling the crankcase)?

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By DANIEL TINDER - 9 Years Ago

By MoonShadow - 9 Years Ago
I think they rank up there with the add on oiler's. Not exactly the answer but can't hurt?
By paul2748 - 9 Years Ago
Looks like all it can do is muffle the noise from the solid lifters.  Doesn't look like it lubricates much as there is no oil source to keep the pads wet..

Nice display item
By chiggerfarmer - 9 Years Ago
I saw one on a 6 cyl scruby, late 40's or early 50's. I was just a kid hanging around local garage, mechanic told me that you took valve cover off and poured oil on it periodically. Must have muffled the sound of dry tappets enough to make customer think it was helping??  Folks were willing to do lots more work back then in the name of saving money. It surely must have encouraged the snake oil salesmen.
By Ted - 9 Years Ago
I cringe at what happens on the inside of the engine when these pads start to deteriorate and starts plugging up the oil return holes in the heads and/or the oil screen in the sump.  For reducing the valve train noise, these might have been just as effective by being bolted to the tops of the valve covers rather than being placed so that they lay on the rocker arms.
 
I see this same seller has an old stock of these for the other makes of engines for that era.  As Tom brings up, this is some more of the ‘Snake Oil’ that was sold back in the day.
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By PWH42 - 9 Years Ago

There were a lot of engines running around back in the day with gunny sacks lain on top of the rockers.I personally put several of them in the $25 stovebolt sixes that I ran around in back in the early-mid 50s.I didn't know anyone made a product designed for that purpose.I'll bet the gunny sacks were cheaper.(They were free).We just had to make sure all the oats or feed was emptied out of them.