Now that I have the new and improved replacement METAL flange w/nipple, instead of an o-ring, a flat gasket is used for the seal against the cylinder head.
What, if anything, should I use on this gasket?

Thanks, Jim

86 Syncro Westfalia (Terapn)

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim King <terrapincampers@optonline.net>
Date: Monday, August 15, 2005 7:31 pm
Subject: GET THIS UPGRADED PART!  RE: P/N for 86 2.1 Syncro cooling system part

> I'm sure all the folks who have done a head job have long since
> changed out this chunk of junk. This rates right up there with the
> plastic gas line nipple coming into the engine compartment.
>
> Jeffrey, thank you for the P/N... once I got the thing out the p/n
> for the "old style" flange 025121160C was molded on there.
>
> Anyone who has a Vanagon with the old style plastic flange w/O-
> Ring should get one of these ASAP as I narrowly averted disaster
> when it failed spectacularly in my driveway, the day AFTER coming
> home from a trip. It's completely warped. I even think this was
> where the tiny but mysterious coolant leak I could never locate
> was coming from. The new ones are steel & use a flat gasket instead.
>
> If all this is in the archives, and I've relatively sure it is,
> sorry for the re-hash... but maybe I'll save another poor slob,
> like myself, from being stranded.
>
>
> Jim King
> 86 Syncro Westy (Terapn)
> Garrison, NY
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jeffrey Schwaia <jeff@vanagonparts.com>
> Date: Monday, August 15, 2005 6:06 pm
> Subject: RE: P/N for 86 2.1 Syncro cooling system part
>
> > 025121160D
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On
> Behalf> Of Jim King
> > Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 1:54 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: P/N for 86 2.1 Syncro cooling system part
> >
> >
> > I'm trying to find the part number for the black plastic flange
> > w/nipplethat bolts to the right head. One of the thin coolant
> > hoses is attached to
> > it and then connects to the metal coolant tube that runs along the
> > rearengine compartment lip.
> >
> > 86 Syncro Westy
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> >
>