Permatex 80011 Form-A-Gasket No. 2 Sealant

I've been using Permatex #2 forever. Its perfect for valve and cam covers, timing chain covers, water pumps, carb assembly. when you want one side to stick so you can take it apart without a chisel and a lot of grief, this is the stuff you use. When it says it stays flexible, that's what they mean. The average shade tree mechanic can put this in a box for later, come back in five years and its good as new. Skip all the silicone stuff that goes solid in the tube in a few months. There's probably plenty of household uses I hadn't even considered. I'm going to go looking at all those drippy angle stops and such.

I use a thin layer of #2 on all my oil related gaskets. Very good luck with multiple applications.

Great name brand and does the job.

I have used gallons and gallons of this stuff over the years; I would not be without it. I was using it way back when it was Mr. Gasket. I never do any tedious gasket scraping; that went out with Model T Fords. I pull the two parts apart and try my best to keep the gasket intact; but, I don't lose sleep over it if the gasket separates, tears, breaks, or leaves a lot of itself on both surfaces. I just slather on a generous coating of this stuff and put things back together with whatever old gasket was on there to begin with. I have never had a leak. If I am dealing with new clean stuff with new gaskets, I slather both sides of the new gasket with this stuff; and, years later, when I take the thing apart, the gasket comes loose clean and in perfect reusable condition --- not all cooked on and stuck.

Here we have the quintessential old-school gasket "helper" sealant. No tool box should be without it. This sealant is NOT silicone based, which can be a great thing or a bad thing. The good thing is that it doesn't harden and peel off smooth surfaces like silicone, and it doesn't stick things together like glue like silicone. Be sure you're using it for it's intended purpose. For me, I use it to lightly coat paper gaskets used with oil or water. Just a smidgen on a gasket goes a LONG way. If the sealing surfaces are extremely flat and true to each other, this will work great as well, even without a gasket. If there are surface irregularities, silicone might be a better plan. Just like silicone, this gasket maker can cause gaskets to "squirt out" when tightened, but my experience is that it does not do so as badly as silicone since it's less of a lubricant in it's "wet" state. The good thing is that if you let the Permatex #2 "set up" for an hour or so, before installing the gasket, it does much better to help increase the seal, whereas silicone simply turns to a solid mass and doesn't add to making the gasket seal better. Wear some gloves if you don't want this stuff to get all over your hands; it doesn't easily come off with soap and water, but acetone will remove it in short order. Perhaps the best thing about this stuff is that unlike silicone, it is far less likely to turn to a solid mass in the tube before you have a chance to use it again.

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It feels funny to leave a review for this product. Not because it does not deserve one, but because it should be a household product in every garage of the family back yard mechanic. This stuff works great. It has an incredibly long shelf life (I had to buy another one because I lost my other one! It's kinda like the 10mm socket! LOL). It is easy to apply. The adhesion is good. I really like this product, as always.

I used this stuff on a RV sewer pipe repair and it worked great. I previously used silicone sealant and it did not work well in a water environment.

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Its non-hardening so always sticky Also it is very hazardous Not useful at all

I used this product for a carburator gasket in my small electric generator. Very fast shipping and hope to deal again!!

This product does not include a tube nozzle. Without it it is close to impossibel to make a thin bead as a gasket.

very good for my job