I have a 95 12 valve Dodge Ram. The valve cover gaskets are slowly leaking onto the exhaust manifold, so I bought 6 sets of felpro gaskets.

Cylinders 1-4 look like a walk in the park. Cylinder 5 and 6 look like hell to deal with, with number 5 looking like it's the hardest.

My plan of attack is remove/replace the front 3 then take on the rear 3. Sound like a plan?

Any tips on removing the rear 2 valve covers? I also would really like to know how you people adjust the valves on the rear 2 cylinders?

 

It really is not as hard as it might look. Just pull the covers off, wipe them clean install the new gaskets. The covers come off and on quite easily.

 

adjusting the valves on the back 2 is the same on the front 4. nothing really in the way.

 

It does look harder than it is.

Finished in under 2 hours. But I didn't adjust the valves. Not confident in my skills enough yet.

I dropped some leaves and debris in the valve area, will this be an issue? At one point an acorn dropped next to a pushrod, good thing it was too big to go down the hole. I sprayed as much debris away as I could.

 

Somebody needs to get farther away from the shade tree. LOL