Well I've don the cam cover gaskets. Did the breathers too its taken all yesterday afternoon and till about 2.00 this arvo
Started her up and seems ok runs smoothly enough. I did find that one of the small breather pipes to the plenum was split and had come off the plenum altogether and the others all had the clips missing, fixed now though.
The passenger side cover was a right bu**er. after a lot of fiddling and farting about i got it on and felt underneath to make sure that the gasket was still in situ not at all. Damn thing had fallen out so it had to come off again. I put a few little blobs of black goo in the slot and it was ok the second time around.
Yes i did use the proper VX bits, thanks to Andy.
Thanks for all your help. I won,t be quite so nervous of the top end next time.