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Old May 19, 2012 | 06:05 PM
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Why not to use paper gasket on front cover

I was having low oil pressure (5psi at idle) took the front cover off and look what I found!

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Old May 19, 2012 | 07:39 PM
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use the cosmo steel gasket.

http://atkinsrotary.com/store/catalo...2-p-17471.html
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Old May 19, 2012 | 08:15 PM
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Yeap already on order
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Old May 20, 2012 | 04:24 PM
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Did you use the stock O-ring and white plastic ring around the O-ring? The metal gasket IS better but I've built many engines with the stock gasket/o-ring/plastic ring with zero problems.

Also, to properly fix that you really need to either drop the oil pan or pull the engine and drop the oil pan. That's the only way you can properly re-seal the oil pan. On my FC I screwed up a LOT of stuff under the front cover on my first engine build and I think I did like 6 front cover jobs until I figured everything out (painful learning process) and doing a front cover job in the car SUCKS. I would hands down pull the engine on any RX-7 that needed anything under the front cover, you're way ahead of the game doing it that way.

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Old May 20, 2012 | 05:21 PM
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+1 for Dale's remarks
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Old May 20, 2012 | 06:49 PM
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Old May 20, 2012 | 10:49 PM
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I forgot the inner o ring. What did you screw up ?

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