KVH
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I'm so frustrated. It seems I can't fix anything right now. I just put my timing cover on with a new gasket. I used a blue gasket maker from a 6 year old unopened tube. It seemed a bit like Hylomar, and I wasn't worried about anything. The instructions recommended it for timing covers. After I got the cover reinstalled and torqued I could see large pieces of my gasket torn and protruding from the sides of the timing cover. Due to the angle I was working, I didn't notice anything awry while I was reinstalling the cover. But, seriously, it's as if something shredded my gasket or as if the bolts bound up in the fibers at each bolt hole and pulled and tore at it. It was torn and distorted in at least four places. I've never seen such a thing. Anyone else?