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I'm replacing my clutch cover and believe some places want a little dab of RTV.

Are there any good options I can pick up locally?
 
Three Bond makes good stuff. Use it on diesels at work. Don't know if it's available local or not. Purchasing buys it for me.

Also Permatex Ultra Blue RTV is pretty good for sealing lube oil mating surfaces. Make sure surfaces and gaskets are oil free before applying sealant. I like using acetone because it doesn't leave a residue but other solvents will work.
 
I would use acetone as long as the parts are metal. And if you really want to be anal, finish with 99% isopropyl alcohol. Rubbing alcohol will work as well, but since it's 30% water, you'll have to make sure it's dry before assembling.

Any other solvents will either leave a residue, are nasty to work with, or hard to find.

I'm in the medical device business and in manufacturing, when cleaning metal parts, we use acetone followed with isopropyl alcohol. Works great.
 
Junkie said:
I'm replacing my clutch cover and believe some places want a little dab of RTV.

Are there any good options I can pick up locally?
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You can pickup some Permatex at O'Reilly. I can't remember the number but if you read the packages, you will find one that is correct.
 
three bond or toyota seal. Do NOT use RTV.
 
Threebond, yamabond, hondabond, -----bond, they work best for me. I rarely have long term success with RTV in petroleum sutuations. Permatex blue works for water pumps for coolant systems but thats it. Never have a differential cover on my trucks leak with threebond.
 
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ST Guy said:
I would use acetone as long as the parts are metal. And if you really want to be anal, finish with 99% isopropyl alcohol. Rubbing alcohol will work as well, but since it's 30% water, you'll have to make sure it's dry before assembling.

Any other solvents will either leave a residue, are nasty to work with, or hard to find.

I'm in the medical device business and in manufacturing, when cleaning metal parts, we use acetone followed with isopropyl alcohol. Works great.
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thanks, but I wasn't asking about how to clean things.
afm199 said:
three bond or toyota seal. Do NOT use RTV.
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Is that something I should be able to pick up from a Toyota dealer's parts department? https://smile.amazon.com/Genuine-Toyota-00295-00103-Formed-Place/dp/B000EDDTV0?sa-no-redirect=1 is that what you speak of?
 
any hardware store should have permatex ultra black RTV. Works great on anything exposed to oil. About $6 a tube.
 
KrustyKruser said:
Threebond, yamabond, hondabond, -----bond, they work best for me. I rarely have long term success with RTV in petroleum sutuations. Permatex blue works for water pumps for coolant systems but thats it. Never have a differential cover on my trucks leak with threebond.
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I see various different varieties of Hondabond and Yamabond, suggestions on which one?
 
looking at the service manual I guess they say to put it all on dry... for some reason I thought I saw that some goop was helpful.
 
Junkie said:
I see various different varieties of Hondabond and Yamabond, suggestions on which one?
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I would use threebond 1215 for your application. Threebond 1217M would be good for an oily situation like a differential because even if you clean the crap out of it there is always more gear oil coming from the differential gears.

Honda bond 4HT is for gasketless situations and is high temp. The Honda bond 4 is for use with gaskets and is quality stuff too.
 
Whatever you use make sure it is fresh. I just did a valve cover gasket on my dads focus. I had an old tube of ultra black. Came out kinda grainy, ended up needing to retap a screw so cleaned off the two small blobs of rtv, next day stuff hadnt set and was still gooey on the rag. Ended up using blue which did set up.
 
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I see various different varieties of Hondabond and Yamabond, suggestions on which one?
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Yamabond-4. And as previously mentioned, there are preferred products over RTV that works better at pretty much sealing everything. Gasket-to-metal and metal-to-metal interfaces.
 
I would agree with the Yamabond-4. Just make sure the surface is cleaned (and I won't be THAT guy to start talking about it). :)
 
Threebond 1207b is what HRC uses on their cases and can purchased locally from Scuderia
 
replace the stator on the dr650 this week and learned something new. red rtv on the gasket guarantees it will leak. had to order the gasket again and this time installing it dry first.if it does leak, i'd picked up a can of permatex high tack just in case....
 
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