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Hi all, Replaced my thermostat with a 180 degree to help with pinging on my 2000 r/t and now it it leaks.
I am using the gaskets they sale at kragen that have a sticky backing on one side. I have done it 2 times now, the last time I used 2 gaskets with the sticky side on the manifold side and used rtv on the housing side and it still has a small leak!
I am going to do it a 3rd time and hopefully last time so I thought id ask here 1st.
Am I using wrong gasket? do I need to put RTV on both mating surfaces?
I was trying to avoid the rtv on the manifold side for future easy removal cause the access to that is so tight.
Ive done this job before on allot of other cars and never had a failure twice in a row like this!
Anyone have any recommendation?
I am using the gaskets they sale at kragen that have a sticky backing on one side. I have done it 2 times now, the last time I used 2 gaskets with the sticky side on the manifold side and used rtv on the housing side and it still has a small leak!
I am going to do it a 3rd time and hopefully last time so I thought id ask here 1st.
Am I using wrong gasket? do I need to put RTV on both mating surfaces?
I was trying to avoid the rtv on the manifold side for future easy removal cause the access to that is so tight.
Ive done this job before on allot of other cars and never had a failure twice in a row like this!
Anyone have any recommendation?