Date:         Mon, 8 Aug 2011 17:58:06 -0500
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From:         John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Oil plug gasket -- FLAPS?
Comments: To: Tom Lambas <twlambas@GMAIL.COM>
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  I want to know just what contitutes and oil plug gasket. I started out
in my current van - before I knew a whole lot about them - with a crush
type copper gasket - a folded copper ring with a piece of somekind of
crushable fiber squeezed inside. When the oil plug was tightened, this
material wash crushed down, making for a very good seal. Several oil
changes later, by garages and other nether places - I discovered the
crushable had been replaced by a solid copper washer - and they called
that an oil plug seal. Well, I beg to differ. In my experience  - and
granted, it was in the aviation field - a crush gasket was just that -
crushable as I described, and to be replaced at each oil change. It was
somethign you didn't re-use. I have ordered "Oli Plug Gaskets" from list
vendors, only to get that copper washer. Not cool! Was what I had in the
beginning a fluke? The van was used, after all, and perhaps someone put
that crushable gasket there in place of the copper washer - I don't
know. But i would like to know what is properly called for and if it's
not the copper washer, then where  do I get what is called for.

Thanks,

John

> John Rodgers
> Clayartist and Moldmaker
> 88'GL VW Bus Driver
> Chelsea, AL
> Http://www.moldhaus.comMy local dealership still had them last time I checked. Maybe yours will
> too.
> On Aug 8, 2011 4:47 PM, "Rocket J Squirrel"<camping.elliott@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Is the oil plug gasket used on the 1.9L something I can hope the FLAPS
>> will have, or do it be mail-orderish?
>>
>> --
>> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
>> Bend, Ore.
>> 1984 Westfalia. A poor but proud people.
>> 1971 "Ladybug"-brand utility trailer, the Westralia.
>>
>> Sent from my kitchen.
>