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Re: mystery gasket from 2000

To: <Geegc@aol.com>, <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: mystery gasket from 2000
From: "Fred Katz" <fredkatz@2xtreme.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 21:23:19 -0800
Hi Gary,

That's your timing chain tensioner gaskets. I think they are the upper
ones. Check out 

http://www.2xtreme.net/fredkatz/images/tengskt2.jpg

from my web page:
http://www.2xtreme.net/fredkatz/restore1.html

I copied an old gasket by stenciling it on a sheet of gasket material. You
can buy a package of various thicknesses and material types for under $10,
and make your own gaskets.

So if ever you accidentally drop one into your oil pan, you can easily make
another! Just don't drop the tensioner itself into the oil pan, that
creates real problems! (And not just because it's hard to make a copy.)

Fred - So.SF

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> From: Geegc@aol.com
> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Subject: mystery gasket from 2000
> Date: Saturday, March 11, 2000 6:37 PM
> 
> I had to pull the oil pan on my new 68 2000 this afternoon to track down
an 
> oil leak and found in the oil 2 mystery brown gaskets floating around. 
> 
> I will wander through the parts manual, but I was wondering if anyone can

> recognize the gaskets by this description: It is 1 1/2 inch+, by 1 1/4
inch+ 
> ear to ear, with 1/4 inch holes on each of the two "ears," one at top
left, 
> one at the bottom right, and there is an oval hole at the top middle
5/16ths 
> wide and 7/17ths high. The bottom left is a right angle, the top left and

> bottom right have ears with the 1/4 inch holes, and the top right forms
about 
> a 120 degree angle.  The material is stiff plastic like, and translucent.
> 
> I haven't a clue what they are, and how they made their way into the oil,
but 
> my guess is that they don't belong there.  If this doesn't help, I'll
scan 
> them and post a picture on the net.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Gary C
> 66 1600
> 68 2000 solex in need of an oil pan gasket.  

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