Oil pan ? Sump gasket - A cautionary tale.

[Two Cold Soakers]

I know, I know blah blah blah - I'm posting so no one else goes through this.
About 4 years ago the oil pressure light began to flicker so I cleaned out the sump and screen. Against ALL advice I used a cork gasket supplied by one of the larger Rover specialty parts suppliers.

This weekend I had to do it all over again, and guess what had the screen clogged up THIS time?

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That's right boys and girls, LITTLE PIECES OF CORK!!! The 'effing thing disintegrated and filled the pan.

Don't use a cork gasket on the oil pan unless you really love dropping the pan and want to do it again soon. This time I used Right Stuff. Pricey, but highly recommended. I assume it won't fall apart and clog up the works.... and it stopped leaking for the time being.


FWIW I did replace the TREs and do an alignment. It drives much nicer now.

 

[Nomar]

Yep.
Right Stuff.
In fact, Will Tillery told me that Right Stuff is so good...once it sets, you can remove the oil pan bolts and use them for some other project.

 

[ptschram]

Right-Stuff, it's the right stuff to use!

 

[roverMc]

Don't laugh, but we use to use 3M Weather Stripping adhesive.....that crap would seal and hold anything.

 

[mbrummal]

how about 3M emblem adhesive. That shit is hard to break loose once it sets

 

[roverMc]

Never tried that. We used the weather strip adhesive so much we called it Ol-yellar.

 

[mbrummal]

well, i never used it as a gasket, but it has worked wonders on securing stuff. The ballasts for the HIDs on my brother's car are NEVER coming off, ever.

 

[MUSKYMAN]

ultra blue...never leaks