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| mike373 |
 Oct 9 2007, 01:49 PM
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Member  Group: Members Posts: 198 Joined: 3-August 05 From: san diego, ca Member No.: 4,536  |
I have taken this darn thing off, cleaned and inspected sealing surfaces over and over again. The gasket is brand new and crush washers. I think it may be distorted, or over tightened at one time. I seem to remember someone making a billet taco plate....????? Could I use loctite 565 in the o-ring???
This is starting to annoy me..... Getting oil all over a brand new engine. Mike |
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| dr914@autoatlanta.com |
Oct 9 2007, 02:22 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,161 Joined: 3-January 07 From: atlanta georgia Member No.: 7,418 Region Association: None |
QUOTE(mike373 @ Oct 9 2007, 12:49 PM)  I have taken this darn thing off, cleaned and inspected sealing surfaces over and over again. The gasket is brand new and crush washers. I think it may be distorted, or over tightened at one time. I seem to remember someone making a billet taco plate....????? Could I use loctite 565 in the o-ring??? This is starting to annoy me..... Getting oil all over a brand new engine. Mike if it is a fairly new plate, it could be leaking at the poorly welded factory fitting |
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| mike373 |
Oct 9 2007, 04:32 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 198 Joined: 3-August 05 From: san diego, ca Member No.: 4,536 |
It is leaking at the perimeter.... around the o-ring
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| SLITS |
Oct 9 2007, 07:26 PM
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"This Utah shit is HARSH!" Group: Benefactors Posts: 13,602 Joined: 22-February 04 From: SoCal Mountains ... Member No.: 1,696 Region Association: None  |
You can try to goop the seal with silicone
or remove it and take it to a machine shop .... lay it on a flat plate, guage plate or whatever they call it and see if it is in fact warped. Maybe they can make it flat again. |
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| Spoke |
Oct 9 2007, 07:36 PM
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Jerry Group: Members Posts: 7,158 Joined: 29-October 04 From: Allentown, PA Member No.: 3,031 Region Association: None 
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QUOTE(SLITS @ Oct 9 2007, 09:26 PM) You can try to goop the seal with silicone (IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) When I put a taco plate on my 71 for a temp gauge sender, the sucker leaked like crazy. The edge of the plate was hitting the case side so I had to file that down. This helped but didn't stop the leaking. Ended up with gasket sealer on the O-ring and around the bolts. Spoke |
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