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<x-charset iso-8859-1>> Certainly you can replace them every time, but if reusing them is quicker, > cheaper, and just as effective, why do it? It's also more in line with the karma > of the car. ;-) > I know what you mean, having just obtained pollen filter, air filter, oil filter, fuel filter, and G12 coolant additive for a 40,000 mile service on the Golf Estate TDI we've just bought. I got them from the VW agent's stall at the Stanford Hall VW meeting on Sunday - didn't buy any Type 3 or other aircooled parts at all, though plenty of people did. There was a sprinkling of Type 3s there - it's the Variants (Squarebacks) that seem to be the rare ones now, and Notches are the commonest! I can't remember seeing any others apart from mine, but I didn't go searching the carparks. Maybe they are all being rebuilt or in use for spares/family lugging vehicles. Dave. UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/ ------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 10:12 PM Subject: Re: [T3] valve cover gasket glued > On 6 May 2002, at 12:47, Dave Hall wrote: > > > What's the deal on this glueing the gasket to the R/C and/or the head? > > I once had a VC gasket sag down along the upper length and spray out oil. > I've just done 6 dabs of gasket compound as a habit since then. > > > We can easily get good quality neoprene/cork composition gaskets. I once > > had trouble with a crumbly cork one from a cheap engine gasket set. > > We see both kinds of gaskets here. The good ones are the black/cork ones, > but I think the only real difference is that the good ones are thicker. > > > I usually use a new gasket each time. If I need to re-use one, I put it in a > > shallow dish of boiling water to get it to swell up again. > > I reuse them many times. Having them glued to the cover makes this easy > since they just stay were they belong when you take off the cover to adjust > the valves. The hot oil seems to do a good job of keeping them pliable, but > eventually they fail the thumbnail test and I scrape them out and replace > them. > > - > Jim Adney > jadney@vwtype3.org > Madison, WI 53711-3054 > USA > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/ > > > </x-charset>