Valve Cover Gasket
Bernie Benz
b.benz at charter.net
Sun May 24 19:42:34 PDT 2009
The only hard gasket that is ever NEEDED is a head gasket. Fluid
gasket materials work everywhere else.
Bernie
On May 24, 2009, at 7:15 PM, kneale at coslink.net wrote:
> Did you NEED the new gasket, Alan?
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: alancordeiro at att.net
> Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 22:05:41 -0400
> To: yoda_audi at yahoo.com, 200q20v at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: Valve Cover Gasket
>
>
> Correct....the TB has to come off......but I did get a new gasket,
> and I am
> pretty sure it was from SJM.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Austin Calise" <yoda_audi at yahoo.com>
> To: <200q20v at audifans.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 5:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Valve Cover Gasket
>
>
> Throttle body must come off to get to the last bolt on the VC.
> The TB gasket is paper so you should be able to reuse it BTDT.
> A new TB gasket will be dealer only.
>
> HTH's Austin
>
> --- On Sun, 5/24/09, Kneale Brownson <kneale at knitknacks.com> wrote:
>
> From: Kneale Brownson <kneale at knitknacks.com>
> Subject: Valve Cover Gasket
> To: 200q20v at audifans.com
> Date: Sunday, May 24, 2009, 8:21 PM
>
> I'm about to replace a leaking valve cover gasket on the Avant.
>
> Am I correct in assuming I need to remove the throttle body?
>
> There's supposed to be a gasket between the throttle body and the
> intake.
> Is that a dry gasket I'll be able to reuse or do I need to source that
> gasket?
>
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