P38A Instant gasket as emergency on inlet manifold ?

Luckysoulradio · Feb 16, 2022

Hello everyone, I'm in a bit of a pickle. I live on the Island of Gozo and getting spares for my old P38 diesel is a nightmare since brexit. I have just changed my glow plugs and ordered a set of gaskets for the exhaust manifold but they have been stopped at customs and could be months before they release them ( I ordered a replacement glass for my stove last year in January and even though it arrived here at end of January customs didn't release until April when Winter was over ! ) I wondered if I can use a form of instant gasket to see me through until gaskets arrive ? I have 2.5 BMW diesel with metal manifold NOT plastic one. Many thanks in advance _ Jack

Datatek · Feb 16, 2022

Luckysoulradio said:
Hello everyone, I'm in a bit of a pickle. I live on the Island of Gozo and getting spares for my old P38 diesel is a nightmare since brexit. I have just changed my glow plugs and ordered a set of gaskets for the exhaust manifold but they have been stopped at customs and could be months before they release them ( I ordered a replacement glass for my stove last year in January and even though it arrived here at end of January customs didn't release until April when Winter was over ! ) I wondered if I can use a form of instant gasket to see me through until gaskets arrive ? I have 2.5 BMW diesel with metal manifold NOT plastic one. Many thanks in advance _ Jack

No harm in trying, I think it should work

tomcat59alan · Feb 16, 2022

Nothing to loose.

pwood999 · Feb 16, 2022

Have a look locally for gasket sheets. They are usually already impregnated with whatever the waxy stuff is, and you just cut to fit.

Ratae · Feb 16, 2022

Your heading says inlet manifold, the body of your post says exhaust manifold.
If it's the inlet then no reason why you shouldn't use RTV or gasket paper to make your own.
When I was young & skint we used to make gaskets for our old British bikes from cardboard cereal packets. Worked just fine.

tomcat59alan · Feb 17, 2022

Ratae said:
Your heading says inlet manifold, the body of your post says exhaust manifold.
If it's the inlet then no reason why you shouldn't use RTV or gasket paper to make your own.
When I was young & skint we used to make gaskets for our old British bikes from cardboard cereal packets. Worked just fine.

Mmm, memories of tapping away with a ball pein panel pin hammer.thanks

pete12345 · Feb 17, 2022

You must have been well off cereal that was a luxury in our house

Ratae · Feb 17, 2022

pete12345 said:
You must have been well off cereal that was a luxury in our house

Ah, when I say cereal we could only afford empty boxes

Four Yorkshiremen- Monty Python - YouTube

dubbleRR · Feb 17, 2022

dubbleRR · Feb 17, 2022

tomcat59alan said:
Mmm, memories of tapping away with a ball pein panel pin hammer.thanks

yes i used the round of a spanner...

puters playing up today

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dubbleRR · Feb 17, 2022

Ratae said:
Ah, when I say cereal we could only afford empty boxes

I was so poor i had to use cereal boxes.....".HA YOU HAD A CEREAL BOX" .....

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Datatek · Feb 17, 2022

Ratae said:
Ah, when I say cereal we could only afford empty boxes
Four Yorkshiremen- Monty Python - YouTube

We used to eat them

tomcat59alan · Feb 17, 2022

pete12345 said:
You must have been well off cereal that was a luxury in our house

You had a house? Pure luxury we had to make do with a pothole in the road, well when I say road it was more a dirt track.

tomcat59alan · Feb 17, 2022

Datatek said:
We used to eat them

We used to use them to fit inside our shoes to cover the holes in the soles. True,my mum brought three of us on her own. You could tell the poor kids when walking to school in the rain because we all walked on our heels.

pete12345 · Feb 17, 2022

We never went to school there was five of us and only four pairs of shoes I’ve u got up early you got a pair that fitted

tomcat59alan · Feb 17, 2022

Mum used to get our clothes from the Army and Navy store,I went to school in a WW1 Army greatcoat I felt sorry for my sister's one dressed as a Waffen SS officer and the other as a Imperial Japanese Admiral.

Datatek · Feb 17, 2022

Torn up cereal box in small pieces boiled in powdered milk, all that was available just post war, was very filling

tomcat59alan · Feb 17, 2022

Datatek said:
Torn up cereal box in small pieces boiled in powdered milk, all that was available just post war, was very filling

Proper cardboard in those days not the recycled crap they use now.

Datatek · Feb 17, 2022

tomcat59alan said:
Proper cardboard in those days not the recycled crap they use now.

and the ink was not poisonous like the modern stuff

dubbleRR · Feb 17, 2022

pete12345 said:
You must have been well off cereal that was a luxury in our house

You had a house

,,i WAS SO POOR

,A cereal box was my house ,and i had to draw windows n doors on it

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