[Spridgets] Mystery gasket (help me ID, please)

Jim Johnson bmwwxman at gmail.com
Sun May 24 14:03:32 MDT 2009


David,

Depends on the gasket kit you bought. The two rubber seals you have
correctly identified. If you bend the two cork pieces you will see that they
are the same as the two rubber seals. You can use either, but in my
experience the rubber seals work better and last longer.

Cheers!!
Jim

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 2:16 PM, David Booker <tncarnut1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to get everything back together now so I can reinstall the
> engine
> sometime in the next few days.  Am preparing to put the oil pan back on and
> have a couple spare gasket pieces in the oil pan gasket kit I can't place.
> There are the two long gaskets that go along each side of the pan, there
> are
> the two rubber seals that go on each end, and there are two straight cork
> pieces I can't identify.  Can somebody tell me what they are?  There were
> no
> corresponding cork pieces when I removed the pan (to beat out the huge dent
> somebody placed there for me).  Could it be that these were there instead
> of
> the rubber on earlier versions of the engine?  Mine's a 1275 if that
> matters.
>
> Thanks,
> David Booker
> '71 Midget
> Long Island


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