Help Needed - Throttle Body Gasket

traser · Post by **traser** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:26 pm

Anybody able to purchase a Throttle Body gasket for me and ship to the UK?

Any help is appreciated!!!

Rgds
Steve

Vulpes · Post by **Vulpes** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 3:34 am

Steve, cant you just make one ? If you are unable to do so I can probably make one for you for nothing and ship it but they are realy simple to do unless the throttle body gasket is something special ? PM me.

Post by **Alspos** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 7:32 am

Yep, any auto parts shop worth it's salt will have gasket paper in varying thicknesses.

redzone · Post by **redzone** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:51 pm

1) clean the faces you are sealing spotlessly, and spray with brake cleaner

2) apply loctite 515 or 518 to one flange.

3) reassemble

4) relax and enjoy a cold (warm? LOL) beer

fugazi · Post by **fugazi** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:51 am

redzone wrote:1) clean the faces you are sealing spotlessly, and spray with brake cleaner

600 wetsandingpaper+oil and a bit of MDF will do the trick it it's not flat...

Vulpes · Post by **Vulpes** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:19 am

hey fugazi, what's that webpage you link to ? I see your car there but of course its all in Nordskaland speak, what is it ?

redzone · Post by **redzone** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 2:40 pm

Vulpes wrote:hey fugazi, what's that webpage you link to ? I see your car there but of course its all in Nordskaland speak, what is it ?

just read it with the swedish chef voice LOL

fugazi · Post by **fugazi** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 4:17 pm

redzone wrote:
Vulpes wrote:hey fugazi, what's that webpage you link to ? I see your car there but of course its all in Nordskaland speak, what is it ?
just read it with the swedish chef voice LOL

rofl THAT actually WILL work!
garaget.org is one of Skandinavias biggest sites for us car-nerds, would be called "The Garage" in Englishisch.

In the upper right corner there is a searchfield "sök" which can be used for... erh.... searshing!

LOTS of nice cars!!! Lots of Volvo's to, but you don't HAVE to look at'em!+

traser · Post by **traser** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:49 am

Hi there,

Thanks for the replies,

I made a paper gasket that's on there at the moment, however I didnt have an old one to go off, so I am not sure if it's holes are correct, I just did the cut-outs to match the top of the IM.

Cant just use RTV because it has coolant channels running past the butterfly,

and no stores in england stock it!!!

Rgds
Steve

redzone · Post by **redzone** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:54 am

cant use rtv because it gets eaten by fuel aswell.

trust me, get some loctite 515 or 518...

traser · Post by **traser** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:10 pm

any body have a online template I could use? or a pic of an old gasket? I've looked all over

thanks chaps
Steve

redzone · Post by **redzone** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:25 pm

i get the feeling i'm being ignored LOL

Noddy · Post by **Noddy** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:39 am

Redzone........ just photograph the gasket you got off me...... then you will not be ignored :D

redzone · Post by **redzone** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:00 pm

lol

loctite 515 or 518 is better than a gasket anyways. it is an anerobic sealer, it can be left for days and wont go off unless it has pressure/lack of air. put it on lightly and you wont have any dramas with it oozing into the coolant channels. any passages that need to be blocked off are done so by the manifold face.

it is also a shitload easier to clean off than a gasket

traser · Post by **traser** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 9:46 pm

redzone, sorry mate not ignoring,

Where do you apply this loctite?

just round an area where theres not a hole? or just round the outside of the tb?

Cheers mate

Austarion

Help Needed - Throttle Body Gasket

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