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mgphoto
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
70_914
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.

Click to view attachment

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.
Dave_Darling
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
turnaround89
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.
Drums66
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