Cleaning Gasket Surfaces
- Use care to avoid gouging or scraping the sealing surfaces.
- Use a plastic or wood scraper in order to remove all the sealant from the components.
Do not use any other method or technique to remove the sealant or gasket material from a part.
- Do not use abrasive pads sand paper, or power tools to clean the gasket surfaces.
- These methods of cleaning can cause damage to the component sealing surfaces.
- Abrasive pads also produce a fine grit that the oil filter cannot remove from the engine oil.
This fine grit is an abrasive and can cause internal engine damage.