Gasket blew.. now what?

[silVerSIXf-body]

hey guys, questions for ya: i've got a 00 firebird and i just put a set of pacesetters in a week or so ago. and all was good once i welded them all up. but then a day later the gasket that goes in between the driver side header and the egr tube blew out. so i went to napa, az, and even a gm dealership looking for the gasket. and no one came close to carrying the gasket. the closest thing they had was the egr valve gasket its self, and i looked at it and its not even close to what im looking for. the guy that i talked to at the gm dealership said that there isn't even a gasket that suppost to be there. sooo i went home and took out what was left of the gasket, then bolted the egr tube back up to the headers as tightly as i could, fired it up and its still leaking right where the gasket was.

does anyone have any ideas on what i should do??

[RadRacer]

Re: Gasket blew.. now what?

Go buy some gasket material and cut your own; seal it up with some RTV too and you should be good.

[silVerSIXf-body]

Re: Gasket blew.. now what?

alright, ill have to give that a try. does the gasket material have to be so sort of high temp material?

[pace2006]

Re: Gasket blew.. now what?

High Temp RTV should work. It can get messy, but if you're careful it should seal up nicely.

[TheGr8Schlotzky]

Re: Gasket blew.. now what?

Yeah, what she said ^^.

Or just get some of the 'form a gasket sealant' for high temp applications. Same idea, just another type.

[v6mOtOrhEAdftOp]

Re: Gasket blew.. now what?

silversix, we have the gasket at my store. i'll see if I can call my store up to get the pn.

[silVerSIXf-body]

Re: Gasket blew.. now what?

alright, thanks guys for all your help.

silversix, we have the gasket at my store. i'll see if I can call my store up to get the pn.

that would help a TON if you could!!

[Cammy98]

Re: Gasket blew.. now what?

Hey I had to same exact problem man, get some high temp RTV like $7 at autozone it seals it up quite nicely. I feel your pain on the search for that part man. haha.

[steddy]

Re: Gasket blew.. now what?

High temp copper RTV. Should do the trick.

[silVerSIXf-body]

Re: Gasket blew.. now what?

haha it hasnt been fun, but i got it to stop leaking. thanks guys for all your help