3rd member gasket leak

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One thing we learned racing in many sports over the years is apply a thin coat of grease on all gaskets.
1. it helps seal them
2. most important it makes removal very easy
3. Gaskets are reusable
4. RTV gets inside where it is not disolvable and could cause problems.

We would have to remove the side cover on bike and quad motors to replace the clutch every two races. Or Valve covers to adjust Valve on solid lifter engines. Timing covers , oil pans on a nitro car. Glue the gasket to the part , Never use any sealant or glue on rubber. Grease the side going to the block surface except rubber gaskets. You will be able to reuse that gasket Cork or composite several times. And when replacing it there is only one surface to clean. We glue thick cork valve cover gaskets to our covers. We just freshened the motor and reused them.

As long as you never overtighten gaskets they are usually reusable. Gaskets get expensive when you have to keep buying them. RTV takes time to remove when you have to clean it off. Tearing a nitro car down between runs before they had o-ring parts would have been costly. Cork gaskets seal tin covers the best. But they need to be glued to the part surface. We use contact cement. Try this in some applications you like it.
 
Used to glue cork gaskets to my valve covers. had to double up on them on cast valve covers as the runners would hold them up and newbies would keep torquing them until the ears cracked. Seen lots of cast covers with cracked ears at swap meets. racers used to use chap-stick on black holley bowl and meter block gaskets so they could tear em down fast and save the gaskets before the non stock blue gaskets came along.
 
Just checked and Houston we have no leaking!
Hemioutlaw said:
Sorry Chief,
Ones age shouldn't necessarily lead to a presumption about their Health... But ya still look half my age
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Haha I am 30, maybe that's half your average but I have the bodily systems of a 60/70yr old and I feel old as crap sometimes. Especially when weather is changing :)
 
But I didnt put copper washers on the axle bolts, I didnt see it on the diagram, ill go get some though. Going to put the axle shafts back in and start bleeding the brakes today when the wife gets home from a pedi/mani and target shopping

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