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the PO of my bus LOVED his RTV - my engine less so
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:51 am
by airkooledchris
there were chunks of it stuck all over the screen
I wish I had taken this out sooner, but a long time ago I broke one of those strainer bolts by over-tightening it and have avoided touching them since then.
the seal itself is two pieces top/bottom - it just looks like one because of all the RTV coating the whole thing.
ya gotta love PO's. (those POS!)
Re: the PO of my bus LOVED his RTV - my engine less so
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:54 am
by poptop tom
Yeah Chris, those should be paper gaskets.
Re: the PO of my bus LOVED his RTV - my engine less so
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:56 am
by airkooledchris
poptop tom wrote:Yeah Chris, those should be paper gaskets.
I just edited that part out of my original post. After scraping more and more RTV off of them, I realized there really was paper under it all!
Re: the PO of my bus LOVED his RTV - my engine less so
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:25 pm
by Bleyseng
I hate RTV on engines as most guys slop it on thinking more is better and the chunks break off and end up everywhere.
Re: the PO of my bus LOVED his RTV - my engine less so
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:20 pm
by bajaman72
The PO of my 2276 was the same way. I had paper AND metal gasket under the RTV wad holding the (leaking) exhaust!
Re: the PO of my bus LOVED his RTV - my engine less so
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:28 am
by airkooledchris
Im pretty sure my PO thought it was like Marvel Mystery Oil - just stick it everywhere and it'll magically make it better.
It should be noted - he was a professional video/table game and jukebox repairman.
Re: the PO of my bus LOVED his RTV - my engine less so
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 11:10 pm
by Amskeptic
airkooledchris wrote:Im pretty sure my PO thought it was like Marvel Mystery Oil - just stick it everywhere and it'll magically make it better.
It should be noted - he was a professional video/table game and jukebox repairman.
Video games . . . don't like RTV instead of solder.
Table games . . . don't like RTV instead of silicone lubrication.
Juke boxes . . . don't like RTV instead of a counterweighted tone arm
. . . so why dump it all over your engine?
Colin
(still a nice quick engine though, huh?)
Re: the PO of my bus LOVED his RTV - my engine less so
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 11:27 pm
by ruckman101
2276 sounds perky.
stop that
neal
Re: the PO of my bus LOVED his RTV - my engine less so
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 7:03 am
by Hippie
RTV, sparingly, has its legitimate uses on engines. These engines were certainly not intended for it though.
Re: the PO of my bus LOVED his RTV - my engine less so
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:05 am
by Amskeptic
Hippie wrote:RTV, sparingly, has its legitimate uses on engines. These engines were certainly not intended for it though.
This is America. If less is good, more must be better, like magazine clips.
Colin
(application-specific RTV on exhaust joints, yes. Black Ultra to fix a split vacuum hose, yes. Anything in contact with the lubrication system, absolutely not)
Re: the PO of my bus LOVED his RTV - my engine less so
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 2:55 pm
by Hippie
Amskeptic wrote:This is America. If less is good, more must be better, like magazine clips.
Colin
I hate you hippies.
sincerely,
-Hippie
Re: the PO of my bus LOVED his RTV - my engine less so
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:11 am
by ruckman101
I'm just becoming comfortable with loctite. Red to seat new studs into cases and that sort of thing. Or at least replacement studs, they don't have to be new, just serviceable.
Don't let Gypsie read that.
RTV seams a stop-gap, time-buying application, until the real issue is addressed, not an ultimate solution. And trust me, I've witnessed some amazing RTV resurrection on shredded water-cooled Vanagon head gaskets that drove out after landing on the hook of a tow truck.
neal