lost egr cooling plate gaskit HELP!

[91supran/a]

ok guys so i ordered a gasket set and i swear when i opened about a month ago it was in there so now im sposed to put my brand new remained head on tomorrow and i cant find the damn egr cooling plate gasket are there any alternatives cause i missed the cut off time at Toyota by 5 min so if i can use anything else ill be happy
thanks
justin

 

[airhead04]

High temp gasket silicone will work.

 

[3p141592654]

Keep i mind that with the engine installed that is one of the worst gaskets to replace due to the extremely poor access to the bolts. I would wait for the real gasket if it was me.

 

[Poodles]

High temp gasket silicone will work.

Read below vv

Keep i mind that with the engine installed that is one of the worst gaskets to replace due to the extremely poor access to the bolts. I would wait for the real gasket if it was me.

Yeah, coming from someone that's done it in car, yes it SUCKS. Get the real Toyota gasket as it's a metallic gasket unlike the paper gaskets in the cheap gasket sets (felpro included) that blows out and makes your life a living hell...

 

[A. Jay]

My 5k-mile-old felpro egr cooler gasket blew a few weeks ago. It's definitely something that you don't want to change again lol. Toyota part# 25685-42011, $32.35.


- from my Archos 5 IT

 

[mkiiichip]

Wait for the proper gasket.

From your post it seems that the head is still off, you dont want to do this gasket with the head installed in the car. (especially after you used a crapy gasket, while the back of the head was still accessible)

 

[90T04]

 

[GrimJack]

Yeah, coming from someone that's done it in car, yes it SUCKS. Get the real Toyota gasket as it's a metallic gasket unlike the paper gaskets in the cheap gasket sets (felpro included) that blows out and makes your life a living hell...

Same here. I bought a special set of tools *just* for this job. It still sucked.

 

[hvyman]

Yeah wait. Its not going to be fun WHEN it blows without the proper gasket.

 

[Poodles]

Same here. I bought a special set of tools *just* for this job. It still sucked.

Flexible head gearwrenches and the adapters that snap into them that make them like a mini ratchet. Yep, still got scars on my hands from that job...

 

[A. Jay]

Flexible head gearwrenches and the adapters that snap into them that make them like a mini ratchet. Yep, still got scars on my hands from that job...

Same here. Well, it's not like I'm expecting them to go away within a few weeks. Now the psychological damage... I almost made a craigslist ad when that gasket blew...

 

[GrimJack]

Flexible head gearwrenches and the adapters that snap into them that make them like a mini ratchet. Yep, still got scars on my hands from that job...

I wish... I bought a special super low profile ratchet set - one like this: http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200199074_200199074

It didn't work.

I ended up using a 1/8" drive regular ratchet and grinding the socket down to about half depth.

That was years ago, and I, too, still have scars from it - even so, it still beats the hell out of pulling the head!

 

[Nick M]

Yeah, coming from someone that's done it in car, yes it SUCKS. Get the real Toyota gasket as it's a metallic gasket unlike the paper gaskets in the cheap gasket sets (felpro included) that blows out and makes your life a living hell...

The gasket burned from my seperate mistake. But take note of the EGR cooler gasket. Get the stocker, wait and do it right.

 

[91supran/a]

ok you guys win i ordered it today will be here tuesday did get everything back on the head today even tested the turbo manifold make sure it would trq down did with no problems dont know if i sould take it back off and put it on once in the car or just leave it alone lol leave it as is what do you guys think leave it on or take it off and risk them striping out?

 

[GrimJack]

Depends on how much help you have to drop the head on... the only thing it adds is weight.

 

[mkiiichip]

There is no problem dropping the motor fully dressed. If i understand your question properly.

 

[A. Jay]

ok guys so i ordered a gasket set and i swear when i opened about a month ago it was in there so now im sposed to put my brand new remained head on tomorrow and i cant find the damn egr cooling plate gasket are there any alternatives cause i missed the cut off time at Toyota by 5 min so if i can use anything else ill be happy
thanks
justin

There is no problem dropping the motor fully dressed. If i understand your question properly.

He's talking about just the cylinder head.

Glad you caved OP, lol.

 

[91supran/a]

i have plenty of help my dad is helping me he used to do them by him selfs in the early 90s when he worked on them at toyota so his done like 50 he said... but im still thinking of geting engine hoist that way i can drop it on nice and pretty