Recent content by radbitog

To answer the OP, no I don't follow Subaru's oil change intervals from the manual. I've owned my BRZ for 7 years. When the car was new I went with the recommended 7000 mile oil changes at first, until I noticed that my car ran rougher, louder. The oil coming out would smell strongly of fuel...

@Trav I ordered a small tube of Hylomar M. It looks like it should seal well, very sticky. Guess I'll be keeping the original gasket and just sealing it up with some Hylomar M, blue glue.

It was a fine gasket. Not a cheap knockoff type. Might have been OEM or felpro. If there was a problem, it might have been with my install, or that the pump became warped because i pried it off or something (I had difficulties). Either way, I'm thinking sealant is the way to go. One can see how...

I used a new gasket it just didn't work

@oldhp what I mean is, I intend to do away with the rubber gasket and just use RTV to seal it.

@Yah-Tah-Hey well in this case it didn't and it seems like it had been an issue for previous installers in the past.

@kschachn Permatex ultra black (oil resistant) seems equivalent to that. The oil pump uses a rubber gasket (pic below), the last mechanic in there added lots of RTV around it but it wasn't a perfect seal. And after my removal and install, the pump or rubber gasket may have been accidentally...

I have a 1999 Toyota Camry with a 5S-FE motor that I recently did a timing belt, water pump, and oil pump seals job on over last weekend. The oil pump seal was a bit leaking, and after removing the oil pump I found the previous job from ~10 years ago had used the spaghetti rubber gasket and also...