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Title: Gasket or sealant?
Post by: dustybadlands on January 31, 2010, 09:13:22 PM

Was rummageing through the $200 or so sets of gaskets I bought for the 2.0's engine swap when I came across an oil pan gasket. Uh-oh, I had just followed the factory service manual's instructions to glue the oilpan on >:( I can return the oilpan gasket if the box is unopened. Should I pry the oilpan back off and use the gasket instead of the sealant? Or leave it like the manual says and the way it comes from the factory? Any preferences? ???

Title: Re: Gasket or sealant?
Post by: wildgoody on January 31, 2010, 10:17:36 PM

Gray silicone all the way, I did a gasket once.......once,
leaked like crazy, so bad I had to fix it...again, hate wasting
time like that. Leave it glued on

Wild

Title: Re: Gasket or sealant?
Post by: Rhinoman on February 01, 2010, 01:16:43 AM

I agree with Wildgoody. Two reasons, the oilpan has to be designed to take a gasket or it will just get squeezed out and leak. Secondly if you have the crankshaft position sensor mounted on the pan then the sensor will be be spaced too far from the pulley and the engine won't run or will run badly.

Title: Re: Gasket or sealant?
Post by: bentparts on February 01, 2010, 09:16:24 AM

Gaskets leak. Sealer is the way to go~!

Title: Re: Gasket or sealant?
Post by: wildgoody on February 01, 2010, 06:31:05 PM

Ya, I tried the gasket way, if the factory glues it on, there must be a good reason

Title: Re: Gasket or sealant?
Post by: Drone637 on February 02, 2010, 03:53:05 PM

Weird, I have had nothing but good luck with running oil pan gaskets and find that using a ton of sealer usually just results in a single small leak somewhere on the pan so you have to pull it back off and do everything all over again...

Title: Re: Gasket or sealant?
Post by: wildgoody on February 02, 2010, 06:04:44 PM

If there were a rubber gasket, I would use it but the cork ones
just didn't last for long, and eventually split and squeezed out causing leaks

Title: Re: Gasket or sealant?
Post by: Skyhiranger on February 02, 2010, 06:29:37 PM

I hate cork oil pan gaskets and will never use one again.  The one time I tried to use a cork gasket, I didn't even get it torqued down before it split and got spit out the side of the oil pan.  I pulled the oil pan back off, removed the gasket, used RTV/silicone/whatever you want to call it, sealed it up, put the oil pan back on and it worked/sealed great.
Oh, and I don't use a ton of sealer, just a nice thin layer so it doesn't squeeze out when the oil pan bolts are tightened.