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Old 06-30-2011, 05:20 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by NoDOHC View Post
It would make me nervous too. Can you reuse the old inner seals? There is nothing wrong with that if they are intact. I have personally used 20-year-old factory inner coolant seal over in another build and they held up just fine.

If they com out intact, they are probably not brittle.
That surprises me.
Typically, the white "walls" are facing in and out.
Those walls will usually delaminate from the rest of the seal, making them basically useless.


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