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A personal preference. If YOU are the one likely to be the next guy to remove the thing, use hylomar. :wink:
 
OK, once more ,with passion

<span style="font-size: 26pt">IS COPPER ALRIGHT FOR THE FRONT TIMING COVER GASKET

ON A ROVER V-8</span>
 
Don,

Why wouldn't copper be okay? Are you talking about copper permatex spray? I used it on my TR4A engine, but the Rover V8 is aluminum, right? My brother Jim swears by Right Stuff.

Any V8 questions can be answered at BritishV8.org. Have you tried posting there?

Dan
 
Naw, the guys here give me enough grief already :jester:

Was just trying to figure out if copper spray was better than the hylomar.
 
I think we've answered it well now... couldn't "see" Don's entire post.

I'll now ~assume~ "COPPER" to be copper RTV sealant. If so, it'll be fine.

"Right Stuff" is good as well.
 
<span style="color: #FF0000"><span style="font-size: 23pt">RUTABAGA!!!</span></span>
 
Yea , tried to find out who sold it by doing a "google " this AM.Didn't find really what I was looking for.
In fact the people who make it DON'T even shoe it on their site.
 
DNK said:
I didn't see the spray at Harbor Freight.
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I didn't either, they only had "universal blue" in a tube. But here is one source
https://www.valco-cp.com/Hylomar.htm

Hylomar USA has it listed, but they show it out of stock at the moment


Grainger has it listed too.

And I still don't understand your original question ... are you asking about using copper as the gasket? Bad idea IMO, for such a lightly loaded joint; but I can't say I've ever tried it. Probably work about as well as no gasket at all, tho.

The only copper <span style="text-decoration: underline">gasket sealer</span> I've tried didn't seem appropriate for this purpose, but it wasn't an RTV. And I don't like RTV in general around car engines, it's too easy to use just a little bit too much and have it squeeze out inside the joint; where it can later break off and clog critical passages. I had a professional shop use RTV on a non-LBC water pump a few years back ... took three visits to the radiator shop before we got all the RTV "strings" out of the heater!
 
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Randall, putting this on the thin paper front cover and water pump gaskets. I have some left over from my 6 rebuild quite a while ago.
 
That looks like the same stuff I tried, long ago. Probably will work; heck even rancid butter will probably work, but I wasn't impressed.

I'd use Hylomar, YMMV.
 
GEEZ!! THAT'S for HEAD GASKETS, Don!!!

Go get some Hylomar in a tube. Randall is right.

If it'd been copper RTV, the THIN film would work too... Too many folk think: "If some's good, MORE'S better!" with RTV. A ~skim coat~ of the stuff is as good as anything. Applying so much it's allowing some to squitter from between th' joints is too much.

A dollop of either one on forefinger and thumb, smear it on the gasket evenly so as to be nearly NOT THERE will make a leak-proof joint.
 
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