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calyx
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PostPosted: 15:34 - 27 Jul 2011    Post subject: A quick question about engine gaskets Reply with quote
I'll change the right hand side gasket.
Seems like the previous owner used a red silicone like material to seal the engine. (don't know why)
I ordered a OEM gasket. Should I use any lubricant or anything? Just whack the gasket there and put the engine cover back?
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P.
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PostPosted: 15:35 - 27 Jul 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Could always do the BCF BBQ special Wink box of beers..use the box and get nowhere.elysium to fit it Laughing

That said...My old car head gasket had that red stuff round it.

Clean surfaces, get it on straight and bolt up nicely. Not sure how nowhere.elysium did my gasket...but hey.. it works Laughing

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PostPosted: 16:03 - 27 Jul 2011    Post subject: Re: A quick question about engine gaskets Reply with quote
calyx wrote:
I'll change the right hand side gasket.
Seems like the previous owner used a red silicone like material to seal the engine. (don't know why)
I ordered a OEM gasket. Should I use any lubricant or anything? Just whack the gasket there and put the engine cover back?


I normally put a little bit of grease on the mating surface to hold the gasket in place.

The trick is not fitting the gasket but thorougly removing the old one. I usually use a stanley knife blade.
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calyx
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PostPosted: 17:17 - 27 Jul 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
Beer sucks. Corn Flakes is much better Laughing

Thanks for the info guys.
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PostPosted: 18:00 - 27 Jul 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
My main worry would not so much be the nw gasket, or even removing the old one... but where has the silly shit used instead of or as well as old gasket got to, when it glooped out of the joint and solidified into little blobules inside the engine.......
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PostPosted: 18:13 - 27 Jul 2011    Post subject: Reply with quote
calyx wrote:
Beer sucks. Corn Flakes is much better Laughing

Thanks for the info guys.


The really depressing fact is that it was Budweiser. Sick
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