kingjd7

For the gasket do what I did. I went to an art store and bought a small piece of sheet copper it was about 12"x8". Then traced the old gasket on to the copper and cut out all the holes. Presto, a copper gasket that is still holding up for over one year, for less than ten bucks.

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stoney78

How thick? 1mm enough?

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Will

Thats a really good trick, if you did two sheets thick, im sure it would never leak.

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kingjd7

I just used one sheet. A year later and I still don't have a leak.

kingjd7

you cant buy a primary to secondary gasket from meineke for a aftermarket header.

jer_760

I used a Coors Light can

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kingjd7

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GSRMx

Did this today, dunno if the copper I got was too hard.. didn't work alone, I had to put copper silicone and finally got rid of the leak.

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Will

yeah, I used a beer can too, did two layers with silicon. seems to be holding up well after 800 miles.

cutter

does the rtv silicon not work alone?

irf305

I've got RTV Ultra Copper holding mine together and havn't had any problems yet

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nik33615

I coated my old used exhaust manifold gasket with that high temp rtv and it worked like a charm....I actually couldn't belive it didn't just burn off lol guess I do get lucky sometimes.

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jer_760

I used a steak knife

Shift_2

Would this work for a turbo to d/p gasket ? I used some gasket maker sheets ans RTV sealent...didnt hold up. Ill try the copper+RTV solution and report back !

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T-Dog

Listen up fooos. I've been running RTV red on my exhaust manifold with a turbo setup and all connections from the head to the downpipe are all held together with RTV red ONLY. No gaskets in addition and they have not leaked for the 2 years they've been stuck together. JGY suggested this when I was putting the turbo on and I was reluctant to say the least. Dude has way more experience than I do so I went with it and it works awesome. Later

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jrg_race

I found muffler cement to work the best