I'm doing some maintenance and want to replace the o-ring on my dipstick and head cover but they seem crazy expensive online. Are these common enough that I could pick them up at the hardware store? When I wrote down what I assumed was the size from the parts fiche they did not match up with the available standard or metric o-rings in the plumbing dept. I'm going to take them off and run down to the store again to physically match them up, I was just wondering if anyone else had experienced this, because hardware o-rings would be about 4 times cheaper.
And just to help make this searchable, oring, "o ring", o-ring, orings, "o rings" o-rings. :)
You forgot o_ring!
If I'm not mistaken, the oring around the dipstick isn't rubber - I think it is made of something similar though. If you use plain orings from a hardware store, they heat up / dry out / get chewed up quickly.
Neoprene.
O rings from autoparts stores are usually made of BUNA-N - I believe its a very close relative of neoprene. Its resistant to heat, gas, oil and a lot of others - but it will not stand up to bleach. It is dimensionally stable under heat, oil etc.
The hardware store O rings - if it says rubber - obviously is made of rubber.
That stands up well to bleach, and heat, but it loses shape when exposed to rubber or gas.
That O ring - take it with you, or take the dipstick if the O ring is awol, and fit and check @ auto parts store.
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Very sound advice. I don't know why the auto part store didn't come to mind, why would I jump right to plumbing supplies? Thanks!
Plumbing supplies are fun! ... oooh lookit! Wuzzat do?! .. lol
The schedule 40 section is pure gold ... bike parts, speaker parts anything you need can be cut and ground from plastic ...
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