In an ideal world and with 2 pairs of hands maybe, however in my case it was a chunk from one of the spark plug gaskets, so no chance of getting any sort of catch device to that location while prising the cover off.patriot66 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 29, 2022 4:20 pmSpeaking from personal experience, if you hold the nozzle of a Henry vacuum cleaner (or similar) as close as possible to the portion of gasket you are removing then there is much less chance of errant pieces disappearing where they shouldn'tChris_D wrote: ↑Thu Dec 29, 2022 3:35 pm Quite a few of us on here have been through the vcg replacement malarchy.
I discovered mine was leaky after purchasing and with support/help from forum members I decided to tackle it, as well as quite a few other jobs.
One tip I would impart is to make sure that if your vcg was 'baked on' and brittle as mine was, that you make sure every single piece is accounted for if it shatters and goes flying all over the show. Took me ages to locate a small piece that had flown off into the exhaust cam gallery.
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Best practice would be to fit all the pieces of a brittle gasket back together like a jigsaw puzzle once removed in order to account for complete removal of any errant bits, especially if you suspect a bit has escaped into the top end somewhere.
