My VC gasket has been leaking so I bought a Fel-Pro kit. I tried to remove the spark plug tube seals but ended up tearing them; I think they are the original seals. So now I have a VC gasket job I couldn't finish.

Does anyone know of a sure fire way to remove these seals? I tried to pry them out with a flat head screwdriver and a pick - No Luck.

Is there some chemical I can try, I want to get my car back on the road.

P.S. should I use some RTV Blue on the edges or is that not necessary?

Thanks

 

wow they must have been baked on. try:

1. dental pick
2. rubber disolving solvents - i think acetone works
3. burning it off with a torch.

 

its just rubber, you can burn it out if you want.. Razor blade w/e...

You just need the RTV/honda bond the corners where the cam sits

 

Burn them off with a torch.

 

I you take a pair of needle nose pliers sometime you can grab an end of the gasket and twist the gasket around the pair of pliers.

 

It turns out that I mistakenly removed them the wrong way. Best way in to take a flat head and tap them out with hammer - gently and the whole piece will come out. The guy at the parts store also learned this for the first time. Thanks to another customer there who told us both how it should be done.

--Wasted a lot of time trying to remove what I thought was a baked on seal.