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[Rebel-OUTLAW]

Hey all, it's been a while...Work/Eat/Sleep-Repeat! Don't worry though, I don't write my mother either!

Anyway, I recieved my rebuild kit for my rebuild and promptly cracked it open to check it out...maybe this damn project will get rolling finally!

Then I stumble across this gasket... It's 3 1/2 x 2 1/2-inches rectangular with four holes on each side (bolt holes?) and one 3/4-inch dia. hole in the top left corner. It is made like a header gasket (metal with coating) and is placement sensitive (TOP marked).

...Anyone know what it's for? I'v racked my brain and I can't think of anything. I've been to the VictorRienz site and that was no help.

I also recieved two black rubber/neoprean strips about 4-inches long with a groove cut in them like they slide over the edge of sheet metal.

Please help It'll feel better when I stop!

 

[mr_woodster]

Hey all, it's been a while...Work/Eat/Sleep-Repeat! Don't worry though, I don't write my mother either!

Anyway, I recieved my rebuild kit for my rebuild and promptly cracked it open to check it out...maybe this damn project will get rolling finally!

Then I stumble across this gasket... It's 3 1/2 x 2 1/2-inches rectangular with four holes on each side (bolt holes?) and one 3/4-inch dia. hole in the top left corner. It is made like a header gasket (metal with coating) and is placement sensitive (TOP marked).

...Anyone know what it's for? I'v racked my brain and I can't think of anything. I've been to the VictorRienz site and that was no help.

I also recieved two black rubber/neoprean strips about 4-inches long with a groove cut in them like they slide over the edge of sheet metal.

Please help It'll feel better when I stop!

Cant picture the gasket in my head, but the strips are made for your timing cover, helps reduce noise.
Remember most rebuild kits are unversal in aplication...i still have 5-10 gasket's ununsed after completing a rebuild. The only thing i can think of for that seal is maybe an geardriven fuel pump?

 

[richiewwhite]

It sounds like the exhaust header to turbo gasket.

 

[Red_LX]

Yeah, I know what gasket you're talking about. I was looking at mine the other day and trying to figure out just what in God's creation it's for. It's a metal "sandwich" gasket just like the intake gasket. If nobody has a clue by tomorrow I'll post up a pic.

The fuel pump has a seperate gasket in the kit.

I also noticed that in my kit they give you extras...like they give you 3 cam seals, so you have one left over for some reason. And my kit also had two front cover/intermediate shaft cover gaskets in it.

 

[silver pony]

I got my rebuild kit from nothern auto parts, and I had a few extra gaskets that god only knows what they go to.

 

[mr_woodster]

the cam seals in my kit came with three, 1 for the cam, 1 for teh aux shaft and 1 extra.