I went to bed just after 1 and wanted to wake up at 6 to work on my car, but I wasn't driving to Holbrook, seeing two clients, and then driving to Mesa to see my girlfriend on less than 5 hours of sleep!
Well, I woke up around 5:30, for no apparent reason! I couldn't get back to sleep, so I got up at 6. I wasted half an hour on the computer, but it was still dark when I went out! I came in at 8 and the sun still wasn't over the houses, so I was using my headlamp when working under my hood and grabbing tools from the garage.
I worked the outer hose back over the other hose, removed the gasketmaker that I could from the bolt hole, but a larger brush from the $5 kit would have worked better.
I also removed some grease that I had missed.
I split a pea-sized amount of Hondabond where the two sides of the timing cover bolted to the head--and realized that only about half of that area was under the valve cover!
I started stretching the gasket into the grooves, but there was still grease in there. I tried using my wire brush, which was too wide, and only got wider as it got messed up--and greased up--more and more.
I hurredly folded up a shop towel and ran it around.
I tried to hand-tighten the fasteners, but it was seventeen degrees!
I learned that if you make your own bolt tightening diagram and print in black and white you need to put the numbers next to the arrows!
I bolted down the head, put my oil pan heater on it, and placed two fire bricks on top.
I spent time I didn't have writing this!
