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Posted by: mgphoto Aug 10 2011, 06:33 PM

Hello,
I need to repair a few oil leaks and I wanted to know what your impressions of these oil cooler seals and the different push rod tube seals, see photo below.

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I picked up different kinds to get some opinions, regular (black) or silicone (white) oil cooler seals?

The push rod tube seals silicone (red) or viton (green)?

Thanks for your input,
Mike

Posted by: 70_914 Aug 10 2011, 07:55 PM

QUOTE(mgphoto @ Aug 10 2011, 05:33 PM)

Hello,
I need to repair a few oil leaks and I wanted to know what your impressions of these oil cooler seals and the different push rod tube seals, see photo below.

Attached Image

I picked up different kinds to get some opinions, regular (black) or silicone (white) oil cooler seals?

The push rod tube seals silicone (red) or viton (green)?

Thanks for your input,
Mike

Silicone (white) and Viton (green). Viton o-rings are the only thing that work on the VANOS system, so they will be an improvement over silicone on the pushrod tubes.

Posted by: Dave_Darling Aug 11 2011, 12:14 PM

The Viton pushrod tube seals that I have seen were all brown. The stock silicone ones were color-coded for inner and outer, I think the coding was red for one and green for the other. (I think there may have been a third color for the early-early 1.7s with the smaller outboard end of the tube.)

The silicone ones work, but Viton holds up to heat better.

--DD

Posted by: turnaround89 Aug 11 2011, 02:42 PM

just did the push rod tube seals on my car and the seals i got were vitons which were brown. Haven't had a drop of oil on the garage floor since.

Posted by: Drums66 Aug 11 2011, 04:02 PM

.......Yes, I say orange/brown?....are best

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