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Re: Hylomar Gasket Sealer

To: dougnad@bellatlantic.net
Subject: Re: Hylomar Gasket Sealer
From: "Donald H. Locker" <dhl@chelseamsl.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:55:52 -0400
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 10:00:48 -0400
> From: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou <dougnad@bellatlantic.net>
> 
> 
> About 8 years ago I R+Red my head, and I enthusiastically coated
> both sides of the gasket with this stuff.  I removed the head last
> week.

Umm -- with Hylomar, Ultra-Copper, or Yamabond/3M/gorilla snot?
(Where does a Spitfire owner find a gorilla, anyway?)

Donald.

> I had to use the rope trick to break the head loose.  The gasket
> ended up spitting, with one half thoroughly stuck to the block,
> and one half to the head.  There was no evidence of any leaks
> around the cylinders or anywhere.  But it look me hours of scraping to remove
> the remains of the gasket, even with gasket remover spray!
> 
> Doug Braun
> '72 Spit

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