new water pump, no gasket neccessary?
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new water pump, no gasket neccessary?
Im looking at a new water pump and there is no available gasket, just the sealant. for 1uz engine.
I looked through a few tutorials on this site and no one has mentioned the fact that you cant buy these gaskets anymore. has anyone encountered this?
I looked through a few tutorials on this site and no one has mentioned the fact that you cant buy these gaskets anymore. has anyone encountered this?
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the water pump kits i received came with a new preformed gasket. the factory water pump is sealed with FIPG (form in place gasket) so you can certainly use sealant alone.
in this tutorial, he uses sealant alone (orange high temp stuff)!
http://www.lexls.com/tutorials/engine/timingbelt.html
i prefer to use a preformed gasket which makes future changes much easier. finding that gasket alone may be difficult as you pointed out.
in this tutorial, he uses sealant alone (orange high temp stuff)!
http://www.lexls.com/tutorials/engine/timingbelt.html
i prefer to use a preformed gasket which makes future changes much easier. finding that gasket alone may be difficult as you pointed out.
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Hell, even the OEM Aisin waterpump comes with a preformed gasket. That's one thing i really dislike about the 90's 1UZFEs, is the fact that they went CRAZY with the FIPG crap! I know some people will disagree with me because they seal very well, but i HATE scraping that garbage off
Too bad they didn't use Metal gaskets back then like they do nowadays.. They are a bit more expensive, but your scraping/surface prep work is basically reduced to just wiping it down with a solvent
Too bad they didn't use Metal gaskets back then like they do nowadays.. They are a bit more expensive, but your scraping/surface prep work is basically reduced to just wiping it down with a solvent
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Hell, even the OEM Aisin waterpump comes with a preformed gasket. That's one thing i really dislike about the 90's 1UZFEs, is the fact that they went CRAZY with the FIPG crap! I know some people will disagree with me because they seal very well, but i HATE scraping that garbage off
Too bad they didn't use Metal gaskets back then like they do nowadays.. They are a bit more expensive, but your scraping/surface prep work is basically reduced to just wiping it down with a solvent
Too bad they didn't use Metal gaskets back then like they do nowadays.. They are a bit more expensive, but your scraping/surface prep work is basically reduced to just wiping it down with a solvent
if you are using the OEM Aisin water pump, as you should be, it comes with a gasket, as YoshiMan mentioned. - it's also in the full Aisin timing belt kit TKT-030
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