[urq] Sealant for Thermo Housing

[Ado Sigal]

Normally no sealant should be used (with any O ring setup), just make 
sure that contact surfaces are clean. if the contact surfaces are pitted 
however, a smear of silicon sealer (or any non hardening automotive 
sealant) could be used. Those joints usually leak because plastic 
housing gets distorted from heat cycles. If you don't want to do this 
often, try to find alu housing. By now somebody must of produced one, 
since same problem is exhibited by all models that use plastic housing.

Cheers,

Ado


The Corbs wrote:

>I'm in the process of replacing a leaking housing in the old Jetta VR6.
>
>I have all the replacement bits from ECS Tuning (plastic is 
>cheap!!),including all the O rings.
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>However, since I've had to remove the whole front end to access this area, 
>I'd really like to ensure that it stays sealed for the future.
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>What if anything do you use in conjunction with the O rings?
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>Thanks, sorry for the thin Audi content.
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>John Corbs
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