 Taco Plate O-Ring Problem, Anyone else run into this? |
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| Ansbacher |
 Oct 26 2015, 05:57 PM
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Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 689 Joined: 4-July 14 From: Tampa Bay, Florida Member No.: 17,589  |
Finally got around to installing my new oil temp sensor for my new VDO oil temp gauge. Knowing that I was to disassemble the taco plate, I purchased everything I needed to reassemble it, hopefully leak free - O-Ring, paper gasket, and crush washers for the two bolts. Install went fine, gauge worked good, but in the morning I had a nice big oil spot beneath the taco plate. So, drained the oil again and removed the plate, inspected and tightened the sensor against its crush washer, carefully reassembled everything, and yes, hand-tight only on the two plate bolts. Looked good until morning- another oil spot on the cardboard. Ugh, getting perturbed. Drained it again, disassembled everything, but this time I realized the replacement O-ring sent to me was considerably larger than my original. I had noticed that is was very finicky to position and seat properly. Luckily, I had not thrown out my original O-ring, which was still in very good condition, so reinstalled everything using that. Now, no leaks! I purchased the O-ring in question from the company that uses a "bird" as their logo. Has anyone else run into these oversized items?
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| 914Sixer |
Oct 26 2015, 06:35 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,882 Joined: 17-January 05 From: San Angelo Texas Member No.: 3,457 Region Association: Southwest Region 
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I am finding that the quality control of lots of items are not in specifications of the originals. I found the new trans front seal are smaller and will go in farther than they should. The engine block front and rear crankshaft seals are the same way. Even the oil tube O rings seem to vary now.
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| draganc |
Oct 27 2015, 09:10 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 725 Joined: 2-November 09 From: central new jersey Member No.: 11,000 Region Association: North East States |
I had the same problem and have documented it in my link:
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...=113674&hl= |
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| 76-914 |
Oct 27 2015, 09:19 AM
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Repeat Offender & Resident Subaru Antagonist Group: Members Posts: 13,500 Joined: 23-January 09 From: Temecula, CA Member No.: 9,964 Region Association: Southern California
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Yep. Finally sealed it with Locktite 518. Has held for 3yr's so far.
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