Mazda 2 ZJ engine Timing Cover O-Ring

The timing cover of this Mazda 2 and 3 under the ZJ engine code, have a very special o-ring at the timing cover which we mark at the above timing cover photo, and we can't find this o-ring is included in the overhaul set gasket kit. Since it is not in the engine overhaul gasket kit set, it may be include in their timing chain kit set but I'm not sure if it is or their timing chain replacement is done by purchasing all individual items.

Anyway, Mazda did service this o-ring for replacement in case the car owner just need to replaced that o-ring, under OEM part number ZJ01-10-673B,  you may find this o-ring design quite interesting in the photo below.

 

Nissan GTR R35 Plug Seal

Nissan GTR R35 VQ38HR engine rocker cover have 3 spark plug holes each side on the rocker cover as like the one in red circle in above photo, but one may notice the plug seal is not a service part under Nissan genuine parts option, although you may change to rocker cover gasket, it may be headache if the oil leak is from spark plug holes area.

In the one GTR forum, we found that some of the GTR owner had found out that one Subaru model crankshaft oil seal size is just fir nicely for the R35 plug seal purpose.

Although the oil seal price may cost higher when it compare to those VQ20DE and VQ30DE plug seal, which is under Nissan service parts, it still worth it if compare to change a whole new rocker cover.

 

Perodua Ativa Cylinder Head Gasket

Today have a chance to look at how the Perodua Ativa 1.0 Turbo Cylinder Head Gasket looks like, actually this piece of gasket is not taken out from the Perodua Ativa engine, it actually dismantle off from Toyota Tank, which carry the engine code of 1KR-VET shown in above engine plate, which is same with the Perodua Ativa engine code.

So what is the differences of this 1KR-VET head gasket with the 1KR-DE2 that use in Perodua Axia? So we put this 2 pieces of gasket side by side for comparison as shown like above photo.

Anyway, at the time of writing, we still didn't stock this cylinder head gasket, which carry part number of 11115-B1050.

 

Suzuki R06A Rocker Cover Gasket

 

Suzuki R06A engine seems not only using in the Suzuki model of vehicle, other than the Suzuki part number of 11189-50M00, you may found other 2 interchangeable part number, one under Nissan with part number of 13270-4A00G and another one under Mazda part number 1A10-10-235.

More info on the R06A engine can be found in Wikipedia link here.

Under this link, you may found that other than Suzuki, Mazda Flair and Scrum, Nissan NV100, you can find Mitsubishi Minicab and Town Box under the list, but still haven't get the Mitsubishi part number for this rocker cover in the website.

Nissan Fairlady 350Z Oil Filler Shroud Gasket

The oil cap on the Nissan Fairlady 350Z on the rocker cover have a very special filler shroud gasket, under the Nissan OEM number 13276-4P100, this gasket consider quite a big piece of rubber, but the place of this gasket located on the rocker cover seems is not for a function of prevent any oil leak, so I'm quite curious on what is the purpose and function of this gasket.

 

Subaru Forester XV Overhaul Gasket Kit

Subaru is making a come back to Malaysia passenger vehicle market with their XV and Forester model under the FB20A engine, under this engine code, the overhaul gasket kit content component seem to be have a lesser count when compare to the EJ20 series of engine whereby for some EJ20 model the overhaul gasket kit may have up to 60 over part number of component, and the FB20A consider only have half of the count.

 

Perodua Bezza 1.3 Rover Cover Bush

Perodua Bezza 1.3 with 1NR-VE engine, which the rocker cover may have similar design with the 2NR series for the Toyota Vios, the rocker cover tightening position have the rocker cover bush like some other rocker cover design, photo above show that the area of the screw tightening area have oil leak which may be cause by the hardening of the bush.

  

The above show that the bush that taken out from the rocker cover, but interestingly, apart from the bush, there are one more washer at the top of the bush.

Above photo show the bush at it obverse and the reverse side, and the washer which will be put at the top of the bush.

And this how it looks like in the obverse and reverse side of the bush after we put the washer on top of the bush.