mr glee

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After toying with the idea of using a cork gasket decided to use sealant as from what I've read the pan is not designed to take a gasket and will probably destort and leak.so any recommendations for sealant or should I stick with the OE stuff (stc50550)
 
All engine variants for your car have sump gaskets. The sealant is additional to, not a substitute for a gasket.
 
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As above. new bolts might help.... but torque them up properly, with the gasket and sealant, and the sump stops leaking IME :)

( assuming its all nice and clean beforehand ..... of course :rolleyes: )
 
Haynes says no gasket.....Unless the information is wrong.No I'm sure it's 100% accurate as always.next you'll be telling me there's no Santa.
 
Haynes says no gasket.....Unless the information is wrong.No I'm sure it's 100% accurate as always.next you'll be telling me there's no Santa.

Aye, Haynes up to its usual standards :rolleyes::rolleyes::D - get yoursen a copy of RAVE - its from the horses mouth.... much better info - not infallible, but betterer :)
 
Haynes says no gasket.....Unless the information is wrong.No I'm sure it's 100% accurate as always.next you'll be telling me there's no Santa.
They possibly could be right. My parts catalogue doesn't show a gasket for either the 200 or 300 Tdi, its states use Hylomar 200 STC611, that number may have been superseded by now.
For the V8 a cork gasket is shown, although my sump appears to have been fitted with sealant.
 
Ok, I hadn't looked - but I did mine (300Tdi) not long ago, and used a new cork gasket, some hylomar, and new bolts.... cos they kept coming undone :rolleyes: - no leaks now :)
I'd go with red Hylomar for the sump gasket sealant.
I would even consider "Liquid Gasket" based on silicon sealants, there's a risk of little bits of cured silicon being shed in the engine and getting sucked up into the oilways, possibly causing blockages.
 
I'd go with red Hylomar for the sump gasket sealant.
I would even consider "Liquid Gasket" based on silicon sealants, there's a risk of little bits of cured silicon being shed in the engine and getting sucked up into the oilways, possibly causing blockages.
I've recently done mine and after reading online info lots of stuff said don't use hylomar for doing the sump with, certainly the blue stuff anyway. (I've got a big tube of the stuff and I'm a tight wad:oops:) I ended up using this stuff from my local halfords
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zero drips so far.
 
Interesting, I thought the TD5 rubber gasket should be installed dry?
Except for the little bits shown in RAVE?
I'm about to do the oil pump bolt, so curious...........

Tim
 
To gasket or not to gasket that is the question whether tis nobler in mind to suffer the oil patches on block paved drive of outrageous fourtune or take up oily arms against the sea of trouble (the wife).
 
Land Rover use a sealant thats got a reputation for leaking, especially if you have an off road sump bump. I fitted an after market cork gasket of ebay (link Bellow)... a tried and tested sump gasket material for many years. Sometimes the old ways are the best ways. Used on several Land Rovers over the years both 200TDi and 300TDi the link is for 300TDi but i think the same seller does the 200TDi Gasket too plus some other Land Rover items Mine never leaked again.
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How many times are you going to post the same thing????

Still reckon it is you trying to sell them on ebay..LOL

Cheers
 
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Forget the gasket fit the sump using RTV sealant & be done with it ;)

You must be very careful using RTV sealant. There is a possibility that the stuff will "squish" on the inside of the sump and those little bits of squish, once it's gone off can get detatched and since it doesn't dissolve, bits of it could get sucked up into the oil system and start blocking oilways.
For that reason I would personally prefer to use something like Hylomar to form the seal.
 
You must be very careful using RTV sealant. There is a possibility that the stuff will "squish" on the inside of the sump and those little bits of squish can get detatched and since it doesn't dissolve, bits of it could get sucked up into the oil system and start blocking oilways.
For that reason I would personally prefer to use something like Hylomar to form the seal.

Really?? How much off it does get sucked passed the meshed pick up pipe.
Then the very small particles will get stopped in the oil filter.

When using any sealer it is usually placed at the front to middle to allow for squish !!

ie.... If you put **** loads of sauce on your bacon sanny it will **** off out the sides & ruin your best shirt lol

Cheers :D
 

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