Re: [MV] Air Compressor Gasket material

From: Patrick Jankowiak (recycler@swbell.net)
Date: Sun Aug 29 2004 - 19:26:08 PDT


Now what do you have against easy-cheeze? Private ownership of
easy-cheeze is what keeps America free!

Bob Ternes wrote:

> These days all I use is the Right Stuff:
>
> http://www.permatex.com/products/prodidx.asp?automotive=yes&f_call=get_item&item_no=29247
>
> Way better than cutout "gasket material" and
> heaps better than "normal" RTV. It's a bit spendy
> for the can (which looks disturbingly like those
> pressurized faux-cheese products, if only because
> "easy cheese"* and those of its ilk are
> disturbing enough), but well worth it. I do all
> my diffs, oil pans, transmissions, transfer
> cases, etc with the stuff now. After working on
> Toyotas, I used to be quite partial to the
> factory-spec "FIPG" "Form in place gasket"
> materials for the most ruthless gasket
> environments, but I've come to find that the
> Right Stuff is superior in results and in ease of
> use. Source out the Right Stuff at Napa.
>
> *For you readers across the pond, it might help
> to understand that Americans have loose
> definitions of just what is "cheese". EZ Cheese
> tests the notion of just what is cheese and then
> turns the dial up to 11 by putting it in a
> nozzled dispenser with propellant.
> http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/cheese/cheese.html
>
> Cheers
> Bob Ternes
> 1968 M35, 5 days to Cat v8 delivery
>



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