RTV used on SIDE covers, will not hurt anthing..GARANTEED!!!
but it`s an absolute NO NO on the cylinder base, head, and valve cover..

ALT, Shifter, clutch etc is fine...

unless you think RTV, can somehow pass through the pick up screen, make it back to the oil tank..then not float, and make it back to the pump..then, THROUGH the oil filter BEFORE it ever gets to the crank journals, and oil journals leading to the top end..

I`d love to see how that would be posible..

again..it would have to go from the bottom of the motor...the tranny gear area, or pan...back to the oil tank..THEN back to the pump..THEN THROUGH the oil filter, THEN, and ONLY then, could it posibley plug up anything crank or cam related..

can even the smallest glob of RTV, fit through an oil filter????????????? providing it`s properly installed..spring and all that is....

even if you did use RTV on a valve cover..worst case scanario, is oil won`t return to the lower end..it will just acumulate under the valve cover from the return holes getting blocked.....but what it won`t do, is fry a cam..

74rat

when in doubt..knock`um out...(or wish ya had later!!)...H.C.C.M.F LOCAL 6978

Flint Michigan..most dangerous city in the USA..come back and visit us..sorry we "missed" you the first time..LOL
"Flint 'Vehicle City' Now America's Murder City"

Officially #1..
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112804/most-dangerous-cities-247