02-08-2018, 11:16 AM
I used Loctite copper silicon, took the head off again soon after, and found every water passage blocked with silicon blobs.
Used Hermetite - or whatever it is called now - next time, and carefully torqued the head down several times over a day.
No problems so far.
How do you get silicon from a tube thin eough so it doesn't blob the waterways?
Simon
I suppose we are off subject, really.
My (pressed steel) valve chest cover was refitted with a new cork gasket, re-profiled so it sat in the groove properly.
It still leaks a little - the only oil leak I have now. If it persists I will use a sheet silicon gasket between the cork and the block, and that will sort it.
I won't need to use silicon from a tube.
Used Hermetite - or whatever it is called now - next time, and carefully torqued the head down several times over a day.
No problems so far.
How do you get silicon from a tube thin eough so it doesn't blob the waterways?
Simon
I suppose we are off subject, really.
My (pressed steel) valve chest cover was refitted with a new cork gasket, re-profiled so it sat in the groove properly.
It still leaks a little - the only oil leak I have now. If it persists I will use a sheet silicon gasket between the cork and the block, and that will sort it.
I won't need to use silicon from a tube.