Dry gasket or wet?

[Brian N]

Replacing the oil/water pump on the "new" 04 4.6. I siliconed the water pump, in addition to the gasket, and the oil filter adapter. Question is, do I need to do the same to the cover gasket also? I realize prolly overkill... Silicone/gasket/silicone/cover... But thought I'd throw this out there. Thoughts?

 

[listerdiesel]

No need to, as long as the joint faces are clean and dry there's no real need for additional sealer.

Peter

 

[Roving Beetle]

There's no need - if everything is perfect.... That's easy right? Ha ha that said I use a SMALL amount of a special grey honda sealer - forget the name but it sticks like mad and actually seals.

 

[pinkytoe69]

Hondabond?

 

[jafir]

There's no need - if everything is perfect.... That's easy right? Ha ha that said I use a SMALL amount of a special grey honda sealer - forget the name but it sticks like mad and actually seals.

Hondabond?

One of the two best sealers ever. The other is the Toyota FIPG (which is actually 3 different products depending on what you are doing). You don't see Japanese cars marking the driveway like you do Land Rovers....

 

[KyleT]

One of the two best sealers ever. The other is the Toyota FIPG (which is actually 3 different products depending on what you are doing). You don't see Japanese cars marking the driveway like you do Land Rovers....

More info please

 

[rover4x4]

More info please

Ive got two civics in my driveway, this is not at all true

 

[jafir]

Ive got two civics in my driveway, this is not at all true

I've owned over a dozen hondas over the years, all with over 100,000 miles, one acura legend had over 400,000 miles. I only had two that leaked enough oil to make it to the ground. One was a distributor o-ring in a 1986 accord and the other was a vtec solenoid in a 1998 accord, and both were 200,000 miles before the leak started.

I worked at a garage that specialized in hondas (and later other imports too) and the main oil leaks on hondas were valve cover gaskts ($9, .5 hour labor), balance shaft oil seals (fixed by a TSB to keep the seal from popping out), other seals under the timing cover (should be replaced when you do the timing belts), and sometimes a rear crank seal, but not too common, although expensive to repair because like most other modern cars you have to remove the transmission.

The stuff isn't cheap: https://www.hondaautomotiveparts.co...rds=08718-0004&vinnosrch=Enter+VIN+Number+---

 

[jafir]

This one was used on some oil pans that didn't have gaskets (but some used the hondabond instead)

https://www.hondaautomotiveparts.co...ku&catcgry1=&inputstate=&srchwords=08718-0009