Re: [T3] FI gaskets

[stans4@ix.netcom.com (Stan Schaefer)]

I have used the steel bug gaskets when I couldn't find anything else.
Then the local VW parts place got a fair number of the real FI gaskets
and I bought enough for the foreseeable future(which is now, I just
used the last one).  The thick fiber carb gaskets don't usually leave
enough threads on the studs to get the manifolds tightened down, at
least the metal ones will flatten.  I agree with Jim, though, the
bakelite insulators aren't really meant to take the strain of
flattening them, it's just there wasn't much of a choice at the time.
My engine was old enough(and the P.O. had beaten it up enough) that
there was no bonded paper gaskets on there.   The FI gaskets I picked
up were very thin and fragile, not like paper at all.  Reminded me
more of impregnated fiber.  In any case, it wouldn't be that hard to
pick up some suitable rolls of thin gasket material and cut them out.
I think the local sandrail guys were using the FI gaskets for some
oddball carb setups with manifold extenders or something, there was a
lot of that activity where I used to live.

On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 21:19:36 -0600, you wrote:

>On 27 Apr 99, at 23:37, Dave Hall wrote:
>
>> Jim, tell me more about the paper gaskets for sealing between head and
>> inlet tubes on FI.  I didn't find anything like that, and the only gasket
>> shown there in the parts book itu^_ick heat insulation one.
>
>The original gaskets are about 5mm bakelite with a paper gasket 
>bonded to each side. The dual carb engines use this same paper gasket 
>by itself. Because the "correct" gasket is rather expensive, I just 
>buy the dual carb gaskets and put one on each side of one of the 
>bakelite insulators after cleaning all the remains of the previous 
>gasket off. This takes 4 paper gaskets per FI engine.
>
>NONE of these gaskets comes in any of the gasket kits that I have 
>ever gotten, so you have to do something. I don't think the silver 
>steel gaskets that are for the beetles are a suitable substitute as 
>they may tend to crack the bakelite.
>
>Jim 
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