Engine gaskets - grease, sealant or dry?

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

I aways stick the blue then gasket then blue on water pumps...given the amount of hassle involved to pull it all apart it's not worth the risk. I never reuse paper gaskets when they are holding back liquids anyway so prefer a fit and forget route.

Next cork gasket I do am going to try etc sealant to try it out.

 

[roofman]

Always used Yamabond when splitting cases on bikes and cars, same thickness as a business card put on with a finger tip.

 

[bricol]

[QUOTE="Next cork gasket I do am going to try etc sealant to try it out.[/QUOTE]

I got fed up with the cork lower sump pan gasket squeezing out, or loosing compression and the bolts backing off and leaking - and I wasn't paying the 30 quid plus specialist wanted for an "upgraded" one. Some measuring and some CAD work - local gasket place supplied a rather more modern alternative for £6 - no squeezing out, so losing compression. I just forget the name of the stuff right now!

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

local gasket place supplied a rather more modern alternative for £6 - no squeezing out, so losing compression. I just forget the name of the stuff right now!

Post it when you remember please....the nissan figaro needs the sum gasket doing. Had a look at the gasket and it's basically 2 rubber bits and 2 cork bits....so a 4 part gasket on a sump! I'm thinking I have more chance of getting it to seal with a tube of bath sealant!

 

[mangocrazy]

While we are on the subject of fords with fiat twin cam engines, this might be of interest.


http://www.guy-croft.com/viewtopic.php?t=2889

The engine (and the exhaust system!) is definitely the star of that stratospherically-priced car... Guy's work is immaculate and the exhaust is a thing of beauty.

 

[Bill Edwards]

If I was doing it I'd use a thin smear of rtv gasket sealant.

No, RTV is designed to replace gaskets altogether.

If you want to make sure a paper gasket doesn't leak, you apply something suitable for dressing gaskets like Hylomar or Wellseal.

Different products for different jobs.

 

[bricol]

The engine (and the exhaust system!) is definitely the star of that stratospherically-priced car... Guy's work is immaculate and the exhaust is a thing of beauty.

I know of more than one engine tuner with an opinion about him

 

[bricol]

Post it when you remember please....the nissan figaro needs the sum gasket doing. Had a look at the gasket and it's basically 2 rubber bits and 2 cork bits....so a 4 part gasket on a sump! I'm thinking I have more chance of getting it to seal with a tube of bath sealant!

Flexseal AF163.

Of course,with a pressed steel pan, the flange has to be pretty flat and true - dress out all the years of overtightened screws, dents, etc.

I've not got it back in yet, so no comment as yet as to it's performance.

Ford crossflow sump pan is two lengths of cork, two rubber bits over the ends of the crank at each end of the block - that has to have some silicon in the gaps to try to keep most of the oil in.

I now accept the one on my Dutton trials car leaks and keeps the outside of the sump rust free

 

[Cobbler]

I now accept the one on my Dutton trials car leaks and keeps the outside of the sump rust free

Did you come down & do the Clouds?

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

Nissan sounds similar to the ford...actually sounds exactly same.

My plan was to glue the seal to the block with RTV...there is an upgrade seal available that is 1 piece....but at £50 that's going to wait until my euromillions numbers come up!

 

[bricol]

Did you come down & do the Clouds?

I have done it - but quite some years ago - its a long way from up here.

Last Classic was last years Yorkshire - when my novice co-driver called a restart - shame it was a Class 8 and not for our Class 7. Dropped from out-right win to 10th overall . . . 30 seconds of "grrrrrrr . . ." and then carry on enjoying a good trial on a sunny day

(teeth only slight gnashed as I type this . . . )

 

[Cobbler]

Been there, done that, 1st all the way to the last section, on the last round they tightened it up & I cocked it up! We came first the previous year, so we gave someone else a chance

 

[mangocrazy]

I know of more than one engine tuner with an opinion about him

I'm sure most of them do... I think the majority would acknowledge the quality of the work, but roll their eyes at the cost. He's also pretty dismissive of most other tuners, which doubtless doesn't help.

 

[bricol]

He took a Fiat/Lancia specialist operating out of a set of railway arches in SE London to court a decade or two ago for criticising a few things in the first edition of his little twincam book (not the whacking great red one) - which of course forced the arch guy to look in more depth at every page of the book . . . he found a fair few more problems . .. arch guy didn't lose

 

[normspanners]

I use wellseal it stays fluid its what is used on rover k series cam carriers they have no gasket but if you use a setting sealer it can block oilways I have literally done hundreds of k series I used to do about 3 -4 a week for years and never had a leak if it is a paper gasket i use well seal on the bit that comes off the engine and grease on the block then when you take it apart the gasket comes off clean.
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[Cobbler]

I remember my father using Wellseal on something in the early to mid fifties, his tin was yonks old then, left over from when he worked on aero engines I would guess. I thought it was a long gone old fashioned sealant, never heard of it since, but all of a sudden pops up again as the stuff to use.

 

[normspanners]

I remember my father using Wellseal on something in the early to mid fifties, his tin was yonks old then, left over from when he worked on aero engines I would guess. I thought it was a long gone old fashioned sealant, never heard of it since, but all of a sudden pops up again as the stuff to use.

I always have some to hand when my tube gets close to end i get another, my engine man buys it by the box!
One of the best IMO and VERY easy to clean off. after its been used

 

[Dcal]

I know of more than one engine tuner with an opinion about him

he's certainly an odd fish

He took a Fiat/Lancia specialist operating out of a set of railway arches in SE London to court a decade or two ago for criticising a few things in the first edition of his little twincam book (not the whacking great red one) - which of course forced the arch guy to look in more depth at every page of the book . . . he found a fair few more problems . .. arch guy didn't lose

You mean the most expensive book I ever bought is full of "problems"
I have have the "whacking great red one" which in fairness is not a bad read.

 

[mangocrazy]

Yes, I've got the 1996 'Modifying and Tuning Foat/Lancia Twin-Cam engines' book (pictures in B/W), and his updated 2010 edition, which is bigger (in every way) and has colour photos. He is an odd fish, I agree but he's the only tuner I know who has published his knowledge about these engines. Most tuners prefer to keep their secrets secret.

 

[bricol]

he's certainly an odd fish


You mean the most expensive book I ever bought is full of "problems"
I have have the "whacking great red one" which in fairness is not a bad read.

Not the big red one - that's an interesting book, although I can't comment on how good it is as I stopped with the idea of modifying my integrale and returned it mostly to standard when the prices of transmission parts went even further through the roof.

It was the first little one with a picture of Betas on the front if I remember correctly.