RE: HELP! Oil Seal Carrier Bolt Hole...re-post

[Theron Ross <ross@sanoh.com.mx>]

I should have made my message more clear. It's the "crankshaft" oil seal
carrier bolt hole. But I imagine that your advice would still be the same,
right?

As for your idea to use a metal gasket in addition to the fiber one, how
thick do you think it should be? We have some "Shim in a Can" stuff here at
work that would work perfectly--but it comes in different thicknesses.

Do you think I should go:   |block|  -  |fiber gasket|  -  |metal gasket|  -
|fiber gasket|  -  |carrier|?

Thanks,
Theron


> -----Original Message-----
> From: T Berk [mailto:tberk@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 10:06 AM
> To: Theron Ross
> Cc: Scirocco List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: HELP! Oil Seal Carrier Bolt Hole...re-post
> 
> 
> Theron Ross wrote:
> > 
> > At 9:30 pm last night I sent a message to the list 
> regarding my f'd-up oil
> > seal carrier bolt hole, but haven't seen any replies to my 
> message, and this
> > morning I show no list messages from 8:50 - 10pm, so I'm 
> wondering if anyone
> > on the list even saw my message.
> 
> Nope, never saw it.
> 
> > Basically, while building my block back up I messed up one 
> of the holes on
> > the front side of the block that is used for the front oil 
> seal carrier. The
> > Bentley says to torque the bolts down to 15 ft-lb, but the 
> bolt wouldn't
> > tighten past 10 ft-lb. So I proceeded to damage the threads 
> in the block and
> > cause little chips of cast iron to be removed from around 
> the hole becuase I
> > stupidly kept trying to tighten the bolt with my torque 
> wrench, thinking
> > that eventually it would get to 15 ft-lb.<snip>
> 
> 
> I think you should be OK. Oil pressure is high sometimes but 
> if you use
> a new gasket for the oil filter mount it should be ok. I got 
> to thinking
> you might want to cut out a metal gasket from a piece of tin and place
> it against the block with the fiber one on top of it.
> 
> TBerk
> Torque Wrench? What's that?
> 

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