hello Frank  the old gasket sets did have bad black sealant, the new  ones
seem to have right stuff in the victor rienz tube(even looks like right
stuff)  We havent had any trouble with the later sealant.,  Also on  the head
crush gaskets what we do is spray them with disc brake quite, this  seals
them and holds them in place when installing the heads.    later  mark d

In a message dated 4/10/2013 5:34:29 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
RAlanen@AOL.COM writes:

Walter, unfortunately you have a BIGGER problem.   That sealant that comes
with the head gasket set is CRAP and should have been  thrown in the
garbage, the heads WILL leak again soon.  See my document  here
<http://www.frankcondelli.com/gasket.htm>

On  2013-04-09, at 3:20 PM, Automatic digest processor
<LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> wrote:

> Finally, I have  installed rebuilt heads on my 1.9. Unfortunately I had a
> situation  where I had to pull one head off approx. 15 minutes after I had
>  applied the sealants, installed the head, and started tightning up the
cap
> nuts enough to compress the rubber gasket. I forgot to insert the  metal
> sealing rings! Yes, it was late. I pulled the head off just as  the black
> Renizosil sealant was starting to set. I added another film  of black
> sealant, added some more yellow sealant under the cap nuts,  left the
51813
> on the pushrod tube seals as they were, and then  re-assembled everything.
> It pretty much was a mad scramble. I'm afraid  there's too much Reinz
> sealant in there now, or that a piece of  partially hardened sealant will
> compromise the seal. It was painful to  make such a basic mistake on
> assembly after so much careful prep, and  more painful to do such a sloppy
> job on the sealants. Now I'm  wondering if this is going to cause me a
leak
> later on. Should I bite  the bullet and pull the head, clean everything,
> and start over with  new geakets? Its not that big of a problem at this
> stage as I haven't  installed any other components yet. Or, will it be OK
> as is? Has  anyone had a similar experience?

Cheers,

Frank Condelli
Almonte, Ontario, Canada
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