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I want to remove the nice red cover plate on the lower front left where Sonex machined open the oil pan so that I can install the oil temp sensor there vice in the oil drain plate. Does anyone know where I can find a new gasket for this plate?

Thanks,
Pete

if you built the engine I think ther are extra gaskets in the gaske and seal kit that came with the engine kit. If not you can pick up gasket material at any auto parts store and make your own. that gasket is pretty simple to fabricate.

petep wrote:I want to remove the nice red cover plate on the lower front left where Sonex machined open the oil pan so that I can install the oil temp sensor there vice in the oil drain plate. Does anyone know where I can find a new gasket for this plate?

Pete,

First of all, Sonex didn't machine the case in that location. The cases come that way. (Some cases don't have that opening, but all the ones I've seen lately do.)

the gasket for that cover plate came in the gasket kit. There may be a spare in there, or not. You can easily make one if you need to, or pick one up at a local auto parts store. It's a standard VW gasket, and it's just thin paper. Nothing special.

Go to any auto store and ask for an oil change gasket kit for a 1970 vw beetle. Most of the places will stock it. You will be removing that cover at every oil change to clean the screen in there so buy a few. The kit will come with 2 paper gasket. One goes under the screen and one goes on top of it. The kit will also come with new copper washers for the nuts holding the plate on as well as the drain plug. The kit should be between 5 and 10 dollars

Keith
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kmacht wrote:Go to any auto store and ask for an oil change gasket kit for a 1970 vw beetle. Most of the places will stock it. You will be removing that cover at every oil change to clean the screen in there so buy a few. The kit will come with 2 paper gasket. One goes under the screen and one goes on top of it. The kit will also come with new copper washers for the nuts holding the plate on as well as the drain plug. The kit should be between 5 and 10 dollars

Keith
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I don't think that's the gasket he's asking about Keith.

Most new VW cases now are what are know as the "universal case" and they're designed that way so you rebuild just about any "Type 1" engine. That hole is there in the universal case to allow customers to rebuild the "Type 3" engine which has different cooling tins and that's where the oil fill pipe connects on those engines. Any VW engine gasket (1970 on up) kit should have that gasket in it. Pete, I recommend you simply buy a German or German equivalent engine gasket kit from any VW supplier Like CIP1. You're going to need replacements over time and you might as well have spares ready to go.