Foam rubber gasket
09-02-2010, 03:25 PM
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Foam rubber gasket
I'm putting a new timing belt on my sisters camry and the timing belt cover has this strange gasket that I accidentally ripped part of off. I looks like it's applied as a liquid or gel like rtv but is for all intents and purposes foam rubber. Does anyone have any clue what this stuff is and where I can get a tube or can?
09-02-2010, 08:15 PM
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The only function of the timing belt cover gasket (or seal) is to keep dust out, and maybe splashed water, from rain.
It's usually a thin rubber gasket from the factory. You could probably just let it go, but if you use RTV get black, so it doesn't look like a hack job. I've never seen a substitute for the OEM gasket on the hundreds of timing belts I've done or supervised. But I've seen a number with the gasket missing, if the belt had been replaced before. But then, we don't get a lot of rain around here.
It's usually a thin rubber gasket from the factory. You could probably just let it go, but if you use RTV get black, so it doesn't look like a hack job. I've never seen a substitute for the OEM gasket on the hundreds of timing belts I've done or supervised. But I've seen a number with the gasket missing, if the belt had been replaced before. But then, we don't get a lot of rain around here.
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