Re: [TECH] - Crank Seal - RTV or Permatex? (hate the RTV)

[Ron Pieper <rapieper@yahoo.com>]

I agree with Chris here...but let me add this...stay
the hell away from RTV if possible.  It's the _last_
thing you want floating around in your pan.

If you feel a sealer is required, find the Permatex
that doesn't harden, the kind that looks like Marmite
(oh hell you probably don't know what that looks
like...dark brown thick gooey stuff).  Put a *thin*
coat on the gasket area and where the pan bolts up,
and that's it.

I like to simply clean the piss out of it, and take a
little 220 wet-or-dry to the mating surfaces (if
practically possible), and assemble dry.  Unless I
have a fear of leakage, then the Permatex.  But I'm no
RTV fan, simply don't like it.

Ron
--- Chris DeLong <green536@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> NO GLUE!!!! Clean surfaces thoroughly and you wont
> have any problem.
> 
> Use a gun if you feel comfortable about what torque
> it is applying.
> 
> BTW I had a friend just today use a 1/2" gun to
> install oilpan bolts!
> 
> >
> >I will be replacing the crank seal on my 87 8v
> rocco tomorrow and am
> >wondering if I should use some form of RTV or
> Permatex on the gasket for 
> >the
> >seal carrier housing (flange off block that holds
> crank seal).  Note that I
> >am not speaking about the crank seal itself, rather
> the gasket for the
> >carrier.
> >
> >Also, anyone have any nifty ideas of how to
> actually retorque the crankbolt
> >to specs?  I am just thinking of whizzing it up
> with my gun.
> >
> >TIA,
> >-PK
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> 
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