Valve cover gasket

[KA1J]

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Please be careful using gasket dressing in areas that have oil passages. I have seen, more than once, motors starved for oil because a chunk of RTV got squished out when tightening and blocked and oil return passage.

Funny you should mention that, I've always been afraid of an embolism in oil lines from that very reason. Cardiovascular/Oiling system, Stomach/Oil Pan... Same thing...

Quick Quasimoto, get me a brain. Really...


Either that or it's; Quick Sanchez! I'm working on my XJ11 & it's still POed, I smell windmills...

[b.walker5]

Please be careful using gasket dressing in areas that have oil passages. I have seen, more than once, motors starved for oil because a chunk of RTV got squished out when tightening and blocked and oil return passage.

Have had it happen to me on an old KZ400. Resulted in a motor seize at 60mph, although some previous members here vigorously disputed it, and thats why I only use 3 Bond now (1104 if i can get it, but in the States the best one to get is 1194, 1104 has lead in it). It's not RTV and only a very light smear is needed, and anything squeezed out is too small to be a problem. Most people who have problems with squeeze out have used far too much to begin with, but unlike RTV any excess wont break away, it just tends to run down the case or gallery, spreading out as it goes until it sets, leaving only a smear on the walls instead of great globs of silicon running round your engine.

Many new engines now are assembled with sealer rather than gaskets. Its cheaper and better, providing the cases are machined to match.

Look it up here http://www.threebond.co.jp/en/produc...1100/1194.html