This morning I had a punch list of items on my 64 88 as I get ready to wake her up and prepare for a dozen repairs and improvements. I jacked the car and got under the engine. I was inspecting for a leak. I noticed a dozen small puddles under the engine. I cleaned every area and found a leak comming from what I think is the timing chain cover. I am thinking the gasket is in need of a change.
While looking in numerous parts catalogs I can't find one. Some do show a "front cover gasket set". Is this what I am looking for?
On a fun note...when I pulled the rear seat to prepare to pull a new antenna cable I found a bag of toy army men. The bag is still sealed. The men are USA and what is obviously German. Boy did this bring back great memories.[

 

They call that a timing cover gasket set or timing cover set, I've seen them called the front cover gasket set too.
They come with all the gaskets you need to do the job and the front oil seal, some have a repair sleeve for the harmonic balance for where it rubs the oil seal and gets a groove worn in it.
Rock Auto has them, the local parts store may have the gasket set or be able to get it.
I got mine from NAPA, I called and ordered it in the morning and they had it by late afternoon.

NOS Oldsmobile RPO code TS1 toy soldiers could be worth big bucks.
Got pics?
You could set up battle on the hood of your car at shows.
With the German army guys it be even more fun to do it if they let foreign cars in and a Porsche or VW parked next to you.
Fly a little Olds flag on the American side.
I've always wanted a F-word Mustang, only so I could get about 20 or 30 of those chrome running Mustang hood ornaments and bolt them to it so I could have a hood stampede, it would be cool.
Probably need some heavy duty hood springs?

 

Hey thanks for the info on the gasket. (curious if I should just get a complete timing kit and do it then) I will try to photo the "troops" Don't know if I want to open the bag. I know if I do I will just tie firecrackers to them like I did as a kid!!!!!! ha ha ha

 

Open the bag and the value is gone... Also, they will be all over the place in no time if you have kids or animals.

Cool find nonetheless!!

 

Robs right. They are worth more sealed. My mom sent me my 1969 GI Joe (when they were a foot tall). Boy, me and Joe had some good times taking hills and rescuing Barbies (The only way the girl across the street could play).

 

Ken, did you play doctor-nurse too

 

Remember, this is a family-friendly site, NO details on this.................

 

i would not open the bag... if it is older army men i would keep them or ebay them, people pay MAD money for old toys like that. i have some toys that were made in 2002 that go for like 100 bucks already.

 

If they aren't vintage Marx soldiers for the Battle Zone playset I would blow them up with firecrackers too.
In a bag like that they're probably MPC, Processed Plastics or foreign.
I have boxes of those loose and give them to the dogs to chew up every so often.
Chewed off little heads, feet and arms are everywhere.
I have some of the old big plastic ones you got at the dime store for a dime in the garden out front guarding my flagpole with two smaller scale Processed Plastics Jeeps and their mobile gun unit, ask Sandy if you don't believe me.

We built a whole miniature wooden Vietnamese village with thatched roofs and everything behind my garage when I was a kid. Then we burned it and blew it up with firecrackers.
Why did it feel so good to blow up plastic models after you worked on the things for weeks to finish? It would be be like ramming your car into a tree after you restore it?
If you could afford it and didn't kill yourself that may not be a bad idea?
Doing a Kamikaze move with a car that gave you you nothing but grief during the resto would feel really good.

 

Yes! But it alway felt like blood was leaving my brain and I wasn't really cut...go figure.

 

The bag has 100 men 50 G.I and 50 bad guy. Includes two plastic "sandbag barriers"
The bag is from the famous Ben Franklin Five and Ten Store. It does not have a bar code on it and is made in Japan. I think it is an early 1960's Price is $1.75.
Boy I just want to set them up and fire at them with a roman candle like the good ole days. I think I will just hold on to the bag and put it with my Flintstones Activity set I still have from 1967.

 

Makes me think of when I was a kid, my Dad used to take me to the local Ben Franklin and Woolworth's.
I loved the painted metal (lead or pot metal) soldier and sailor figures as well as the green plastic soldiers.
The toy department had a whole section of tables with row after row of these figures lined up.
The matching artillery pieces were neat, too.
That was a time soon after WWII and Korea, when the U.S. population was patriotic and took great pride in the military.