Is there a thin oil line running from bottom left to upper right? If so, you might want to remove it by unscrewing the ferrule nuts and clean it out with compressed air before you seal the cover back on. That is, if someone hasn't crimped off the rocker arm oil tube under the valve cover and run an auxiliary line around the block.

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