Anyone Use a Gasket Sealer at LIM or UIM?
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I use RTV on every intake I put together on any car. After spending over 10 hours trying to locate a vaccum leak on my old GTR and finally finding out it was the brand new Tomei intake maifold gaskets I had put in, I would rather be safe than sorry. It's not fun to assemble everything and then find you have a leak.
It helps to fill in the little knicks and scratches that accumulate over time.
It helps to fill in the little knicks and scratches that accumulate over time.
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Never really thought about it, but I'm not sure about RTV with the metal gasket. If it only saw vacuum maybe. But with RTV on the metal gasket it would prevent you from directly sealing to against the metal manifolds surfaces. Seems like there would be an added risk of compromise from boost to the soft RTV.
Along the lines of using the pan gasket with sealer, your just adding layers to sandwich and to the number places it could leak.
Along the lines of using the pan gasket with sealer, your just adding layers to sandwich and to the number places it could leak.
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well since that time, so far I've never had an issue. And the GTR saw upwards of 2 bar of boost on the dyno. So far my RX7 is still being broken in but I'm sure it will be fine.
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