Head Gasket weeping

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <3.0.4.32.19971226001140.006f10f4@mailer.cosmoslink.net> Avi writes:

> Before installing the head gasket put a thin bid of Loctite 819 on both
> sides of the gasket, DON'T OVERDO it.....if you follow all other
> instruction (installing the head gasket), it will not leak...

If you use an original Audi (Elring) gasket it already has sealant applied - 
that's what the little tracks running round the gasket are.  Moreover, they're 
in the right places.

Leaks often result when people:
 
a) re-use gaskets without augmenting the original sealant or
 
b) re-use the old head bolts.
 
I find both of these _completely_ inexplicable - especially on turbo engines 
where the total rebuild-test-buggerit-strip cycle takes six or more hours. 

-- 
 Phil Payne
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club