Hylomar!

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Zoltan
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:52 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Head sealants??

Using "Right Stuff" is the best so far I found for the head gasket and some
O rings, etc.
Now, for the fire ring, there must be something else.
Zoltan
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From: "-------------------------" <vw4x4@VERIZON.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: Head sealants??

> Elliot,
>     You are making a major mistake, with:
>
> "Permatex Ultra Copper RTV sealant"
>
>      What the kit supplies, is special just for these heads.   I'm
> speaking from
> experience here with exactly the same stuff your quoting.  Throw that
> ultra
> copper stuff away.  It has  no purpose in or on a vanagon.  I did 6 of
> these
> last year, and I'm doing another now.  I've done several over the last 10
> years. So far all are well.
> Do you have a bentley?   Keep things extremely clean.
>
> Joe. W
>
>
> Elliot Kane wrote:
>
>>So I'm (hopefully) a day or 2 away from reassemling the heads on my '88.
>>after reading every relevant message in the archives about this, I've
>>decided on the Permatex Ultra Copper RTV sealant for the head gaskets and
>>not the Dirko stuff that comes with the busdepot engine seal kit. What I'm
>>still in the air about is sealing all the other stuff. benplace.com
>>(thanks so much for that page Ben) says to use loctite 518 on the pushrod
>>tube seals and the black cylinder O rings, but I've searched every FLAPS
>>and hardware store in the city and nobody has this stuff. I'm also
>>wondering if I should be putting something on the case-end threads of the
>>new head studs I'm installing as well. would the yellow stuff that came in
>>the kit work?
>>  I guess what I'm wondering is, would it be a really bad no-no to use the
>> Permatex copper stuff on everything I just mentioned, or should I wait
>> and get the said and tested stuff online somewhere?
>>
>>  Thanks in advance,
>>  Elliot
>>
>>
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