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God, there's no pleasure in life quite like actually following through on some important-but-not-urgent thing you've been meaning to do for a long, long time.

Yes there is

It looks like I should have opened the gasket box when it arrived a few months ago.....the 4 little orange were supposed to be 4 large o-rings

Missed opportunity.
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(Yeah, the photo is 5/16-24... they don't have a photo of the M8 nut)

I thought maybe I could reuse the orings but there is a reason I ordered new. I found something at mcmaster that will do fine and they should be here tomorrow. this means no need to rush and just plan on noise next weekend.


I thought about 12pt flange nuts but my OCD just wouldn't allow the visual mismatch to the other hardware
......even if they were the best option functionally.

While o-rings are a topic, let me share a source for viton o-rings. Marco rubber. I say viton, yet after a quick review, they seem to have it all. marcorubber.com

Wait, mcmaster in not the only place to buy stuff?

Apple rubber has been my go-to for special o-rings

I've got planting to do today but hopefully back to the timing cover this evening. I guess there is no reason I can't do the clutch, drop gear case case and intake before the timing cover. Something should happen today.

Rolled the car out and flush out as much Evans and kseal as I could

I have a shop sink now with a pretty cool faucet lana got on close-out somewhere.


That's really the best news from yesterday. The orings I ordered arrived and are the wrong cross section because yes for a 2nd time I soaked orings in lacquer thinner to clean them which swelled them up so I measured a .240" (6mm) cross section when it was really about 0.210"....so orings Tuesday. I also had to pressure wash the driveway to get rid of the kseal sparkle and walkway to clean off the graphite foot prints....but the sink is nice.