Making T-stat Gasket?
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Topic: Making T-stat Gasket?
Posted By: AaronSEIA
Subject: Making T-stat Gasket?
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2018 at 8:02pm
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Didn't order a thermostat housing gasket(head to housing) for my D17 engine repower. Can I make that gasket and if so, what can I make it out of? Really want to get her running this weekend and can't source it locally anywhere. AaronSEIA |
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Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2018 at 8:19pm
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Hey Aaron,,O'Reilly's has a "kit" of 4-5 different material and thickness gasket making material that will do the trick for you. 
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Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2018 at 9:00pm
Beer box, and a tube of blue goo...
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Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2018 at 10:19pm
| could just use light smear of rtv alone |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2018 at 10:44pm
I've heard of that being done quite a bit. Sometimes without the blue goo even...
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DiyDave wrote:Posted By: DSeries4
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2018 at 12:33am
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Order one from your local AGCO dealer. They will courier it out to you (for a fee) and you will get it in a couple of days. You know it is the right one you need too. ------------- '49 G, '54 WD45, '55 CA, '56 WD45D, '57 WD45, '58 D14, '59 D14, '60 D14, '63 D15D, '66 D15II, '66 D21II, '67 D17IV, '67 D17IVD, '67 190XTD, '73 620, '76 185, '77 175, '84 8030, '85 6080 |
Posted By: DrAllis
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2018 at 7:55am
| Clean both surface with brake kleen and use good quality RTV and you will be fine. |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2018 at 8:02am
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I would go with the good RTV as suggested. I recall the ole beer box gaskets deteriorating with time. |
Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2018 at 8:41pm
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Get your gasket paper, clamp the housing upside down in a vise, lay the paper on the housing and tap the edges of the housing through the paper with the round end of a small ball pein hammer. You'll end up with a perfectly shaped gasket that fits right. ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |