Dxs
09-07-2006, 05:42 PM
Disclaimer:
The following is provided as a GUIDE ONLY, and neither myself nor Ozhonda take any responsibility for the outcomes of someone else doing the following. You follow these steps at your own risk!
Tools: (many may not be required)
Foam
Scissors
Razor blade
Prepwash/wax grease remover
Spanner
Socket wrench
Chalk
Rag
Background:
I noticed the other day that i had quite a bit of water in the spare wheel well in the back of my car.
I tracked down a source of the leak to the passenger tail light gasket. These gaskets are made out of a pretty much foam substance. They work by going between the tail light and the body and a basically squashed between the two to form a seal. Seeming as though my ef8 is 16 years old it looks as though parts of the gasket are basically staying squashed/lost its elasticity hence no longer forming a seal. Even after a few days around 100ml got into the tail light itself.. which eventually goes into the wheel well.
I heard from bsracer from crx au that these gaskets cost 50 bucks each from honda! **** that I said. So I went down to clark rubber to find some similar foam. There were various thicknesses availble, one was even close to the original gasket size but I ended up deciding to go with a foam around 160% of the orginal gasket size to make sure a good seal was formed.
I took the original gasket there so i could compair sizes, but the guy there ended up cutting a couple of new ones himself with various tools he had, eg some power cutter and hole punches etc. In the end I purchased 2 foam cut out of the gaskets for $5! (honda would have wanted around 100 for 2!).
I basically took the new foam gaskets home (i only needed one but got another just incase). Trimed them up a bit to perfection, punched holes for the threads with a phillips head screwdriver, cleaned the contacting surfaces with a prepwash/wax grease remover and then bolted the light back onto the body. Bolting it on obviously requires a little bit more force, but basically just do up the nuts untill you can no longer do them up.
Pics:
http://i6.tinypic.com/1zehxzs.jpg
1. The original gasket, note how it remains squashed = seal dead
2. Original gasket with new one.. new one is thicker
3. New and old side by side
4. Old one on top of new
5. New one placed on tail light
So yeah 5 bucks and a couple of hours is better than paying 50 bucks and most likely waiting for the order to come in from honda! :cool:
-Dxs/Dan
The following is provided as a GUIDE ONLY, and neither myself nor Ozhonda take any responsibility for the outcomes of someone else doing the following. You follow these steps at your own risk!
Tools: (many may not be required)
Foam
Scissors
Razor blade
Prepwash/wax grease remover
Spanner
Socket wrench
Chalk
Rag
Background:
I noticed the other day that i had quite a bit of water in the spare wheel well in the back of my car.
I tracked down a source of the leak to the passenger tail light gasket. These gaskets are made out of a pretty much foam substance. They work by going between the tail light and the body and a basically squashed between the two to form a seal. Seeming as though my ef8 is 16 years old it looks as though parts of the gasket are basically staying squashed/lost its elasticity hence no longer forming a seal. Even after a few days around 100ml got into the tail light itself.. which eventually goes into the wheel well.
I heard from bsracer from crx au that these gaskets cost 50 bucks each from honda! **** that I said. So I went down to clark rubber to find some similar foam. There were various thicknesses availble, one was even close to the original gasket size but I ended up deciding to go with a foam around 160% of the orginal gasket size to make sure a good seal was formed.
I took the original gasket there so i could compair sizes, but the guy there ended up cutting a couple of new ones himself with various tools he had, eg some power cutter and hole punches etc. In the end I purchased 2 foam cut out of the gaskets for $5! (honda would have wanted around 100 for 2!).
I basically took the new foam gaskets home (i only needed one but got another just incase). Trimed them up a bit to perfection, punched holes for the threads with a phillips head screwdriver, cleaned the contacting surfaces with a prepwash/wax grease remover and then bolted the light back onto the body. Bolting it on obviously requires a little bit more force, but basically just do up the nuts untill you can no longer do them up.
Pics:
http://i6.tinypic.com/1zehxzs.jpg
1. The original gasket, note how it remains squashed = seal dead
2. Original gasket with new one.. new one is thicker
3. New and old side by side
4. Old one on top of new
5. New one placed on tail light
So yeah 5 bucks and a couple of hours is better than paying 50 bucks and most likely waiting for the order to come in from honda! :cool:
-Dxs/Dan