Liquid gasket

My old 2.0 Golf would do a sump full between services.

Normal, apparently.

 

hah-hah - choke - hah!

 

But those VW engines are so precisely machined....

 

Should I have added <Irony> tags?

 

Cane the things from new. That's what we did

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not necessarily - maybe I should have added <Wankel> tags.

 

Are you part-Japanese?

 

I meant for the other replies, not yours.

Heh.

 

Ignore all the naysayers, there's nothing wrong with using liquid
gasket as well as or instead of proper gaskets. Most manufacturers use
it in some places anyway (cam cover half-moons & car diff covers spring
to mind).

How I use it depends on how often I'm likely to have to take it apart
again. If never, I do pretty much as you said, only I thin it down a
bit & paint it on with a small brush (a trick shown to me by one of the
Porsche GT1 team mechanics many years ago).

If it's something you may need to take apart again, I use the homemade
o-ring approach. Put a very thin, even bead on one surface, leave it to
set, smear a bit of oil on the other surface to stop it sticking &
assemble. It's hit & miss whether it'll come apart cleanly & let you
reuse it, but if not, it's a lot easier to clean off than when you
smear or paint it on.

 

My hero!

Cool. What do you use to thin it?

Why couldn't you have told me that before I put it together last night, eh?

 

You & many others.

Cellulose thinners. Just squirt the gloop onto an old plate, make a
well in the middle, add a tiny bit of thinners & mix it up. You want it
just thin enough to not have any lumpy bits.

Where's the fun in that? Now we call all look forward to your future
post asking how to remove instant gasket.

 

It's got to come off easier than 14 year old paper gasket.

 

This stuff:

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/75756

Does what it says on the tin.

 

Sheesh, spoil the fun why don't you.

 

How much Hylomar? A bead, or smeared on? How long did you leave it to set?

 

A bead isn't the same as actually being able to see the whole joint face
is covered before bringing them together and is more inconsistent in
terms of squeeze out, so I was taught!

Paint it on or use a small plastic scraper to spread the bead.

 

*whoosh*

 

Heh no it wasn't, I just thought I'd throw a bit of boring tech stuff
into the mix

 

I believe that's what one of the previous owner of the one I just won
on fleabay did.

Oops.

Cue 156 values in freefall.

 

I was talking about the Single spark, not the TS blocks.

There are very few nice 156s out there now, though.

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Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see.
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