Why does RTV get such a bad rep?

[EricWaterTruck]

My experience yesterday was, well…I changed the thermostat on the ol bag o crap; tried to do it right and just “let the gasket do its job”. That didn’t work so well 🙁 I had water spewing out the housing :ohmy: Since I had to redo the job, I coated the tar out of that thing with blue goo 👿 . Let it sit for an hour and I got no leaks :woohoo: Now if I have ever have to take it off of there again it will suck because there will be a big mess :sick: But I saw that permatex now makes a gasket remover chemical that will eat the old stuff up so you can just wipe it off. 😆

Oh, and that stupid gasket cost me as much as the thermostat :ohmy:

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[Mathieu]

Did you bled the radiator to evacuate all the air trap in the engine head ? If you did not o that, you will have a head gasket leek in fews car drive. I think people did not read the instruction before plying It, so they got a poor result.

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[EricWaterTruck]

I drained the radiator first. Then I filled it back up. Not sure where the bleed screw is or if it has one? …..sure hope I don’t get a blown head gasket from it….

[Mathieu]

You just need to run the engine and wait until the radiator fan start when the radiator cap is out from the radiator. Then you put the radiator back. But whitout the special 35 us$ funnel, you will have coolant spill.

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