Subaru EJ205 Rocker Cover Gasket

Today a customer bring the Subaru Impreza EJ205 rocker cover to look for its gasket, plug seal and the cover bush, thinking that we already stock most of the Subaru EJ series rocker cover gasket, I confidently take out all the items he needed for him.

With one side of the rocker cover gasket is correct, and there are no problem for the 4 pieces plug seal and 16 pieces cover bush, the remaining side of the rocker cover gasket caught me by surprise.

With the other side rocker cover gasket is correct, our record for the other side should be 13270-AA151, but when you check with the above rocker cover photo, you will found that 13270-AA151 have 2 extra guide pop up from the gasket as shown in the below photo with the pink circle.

And the correct parts should be 13270-AA171 shown in below photo, as due to 13270-AA171 is never seen at the catalogue I have, I not aware for its exitance and didn't stock it up, my customer have to look for Subaru dealer for the genuine parts for this piece.

  

 

Subaru WRX STi EJ257 Full Set Gasket Kit

Having some full set gasket kit of Subaru Impreza EJ204 in stock, when a customer asking for the Subaru WRX STI EJ257 full set gasket kit, I try to figure out what should be replace in the EJ204 gasket set content, in the first photo, the 2 pieces of cylinder head gasket need to be change, the 2 pieces of main intake manifold gasket and the waterpump gasket is same, and there are 2 pieces extra surge manifold gasket to put in, plus a piece of different type of throttle body gasket.

 

The exhaust manifold gasket, exhaust pipe gasket, timing cover gasket is basically same for both EJ204 and EJ257.

In the above photo, the rocker cover gasket need to be change, and you may take out the 16 pieces of rocker cover bush and 4 pieces of half moon seal from EJ204 as the EJ257 type of design didn't use those item, other o-ring items is basically same for both model, but the 4 pieces of gasket in the bottom right of the above photo is not in EJ204, until here, I just lack of this 4 pieces of gasket.

Photo in bottom showing the flywheel oil seal which is same size for both engine, of course it just need one piece for an engine, below photo is just for illustrated purpose.

 

Daihatsu KF-DE and KF-DET Rocker Cover Gasket

In the recent issue of Japanese Motor Vehicles Guidebook, under the Daihatsu section, we can see quite a lot of the model is using their new KF 3 cylinder engine, but it is unknown if in Malaysia there are local model with the engine as Malaysia Perodua is currently using the 1KR-DE option for their 3 cylinder engine selection.

First noticing the KF series of engine when found out new Daihatsu Copen is using the KF-DET engine few years ago, and we did try to stock up some rocker cover gasket and cylinder head gasket as Malaysia K-Car fans may modified this engine in local Perodua model.

Above is the look of the rocker cover for the KF-DET model, interesting info coming when customer is looking for the KF-DE rocker cover gasket, and only notice KF-DET and KF-DE is not sharing the same rocker cover parts, even the head gasket have slight different between this 2 engine. According to our customer, it is on a Daihatsu Hijet model.

Photo below showing the KF-DE type of rocker cover which you may compare their different between them. 

Part number of KF-DET rocker cover gasket is 11213-B2051 which supersede the old part number of 11213-B2050.

For Malaysia customers, this piece of rocker cover gasket can be order at the Shopee link here.

 

Ford Escape 3.0 V6 Rocker Cover Gasket

Ford Escape 3.0 V6 engine, also can be find it at Mazda Tribute 3.0 V6 engine under Mazda engine code AJ, although this engine share by this 2 model, it is more to the Ford type of engine, if it isn't under the Mazda Japan engine, Malaysia local owner may find the parts for this vehicle is more expensive than those under Mazda range, although it may be a common part for owner in US, Euro and Australia.

This post we share how the Ford Escape 3.0 V6 rocker cover looks like, other than the 2 pieces main gasket, it also using 6 pieces of plug seal, and 21 pieces small o-ring that serve as the rocker cover bush.

 

Nissan Almera Latio Spark Plug Replacement

 

When come to the spark plug replacement, Nissan Almera, Latio or Gran Livina owner with HR15DE and HR16DE engine may feel the cost is a bit expensive when the Nissan service centre quoted them the price, it may cost up to over RM500 for a spark plug change, when the normal engine oil change service may just cost around RM400 plus. 

So what is the reason for this model will need to pay more on the spark plug change compare to other vehicle, let see from the above photo, to access to the spark plug removal, you need to remove the plastic intake manifold which cover the rocker cover as you can see from the above photo.

Above photo is the view when the plastic intake manifold assembly is taking out, and the intake manifold assembly can be seen at the photo below. 

Photo above you can see the intake passage holes from the engine head that connected to the plastic manifold assembly, and here come the answer, whenever you change the spark plug for this engine, you need to replace the intake manifold gasket and the throttle body gasket as well.

Photo below just show the different between old spark plug and new spark plug.

From the below photo you can see the intake manifold gasket for HR16DE intake manifold gasket and the Nissan Almera is using 4 pieces separate o-ring design, both of them share the same throttle body gasket.

The Nissan original parts for the intake manifold gasket can cost up to RM160 to RM190 a set, which when include the spark plug cost, throttle body gasket and labour charge it easily reach above RM500.

And it seems many car owners is ok with the original spark plug cost but feel the pain when they heard the cost of original parts for this gasket. So they might buying the original spark plug and use the after market gasket for their spark plug change purpose. 

Apart from the HR series of engine, the MR18DE and MR20DE engine which found in Slphy, Serena C26 and X-Trail T32 model may using the same design which you need to remove the intake manifold assembly when changing the spark plug.

Isuzu D-Max Oil Pan use Gasket?

Most of the modern Japanese vehicle is design as such the oil pan assembly no more using gasket as their sealing purpose, it is commonly using the gasket fluid or gasket adhesive as the sealing solution.

But still it is possible to develop the gasket base with the oil pan assembly.

Isuzu D-Max 2.5 16V with 4JK1 engine and 3.0 16V with 4JJ1 engine share the same design of oil pan assembly, but a the bottom part of the oil pan which have another small pan assembly, there have 2 design of it, one is for the 4X2 (2 wheel drive) and one is for 4X4 (4 wheel drive) model.

From the photo below, the left side is the gasket for the 4X2 model and the right side is for the 4X4 model. Both gasket are develop by the local gasket manufacturer base on the oil pan assembly and the parts is not in the OEM part list.

 

1KR-VET Rocker Cover Gasket

Perodua had just launched their first SUV recently name Ativa, from the vehicle specification we can found that it use 3 cylinder turbocharge 1KR-VET engine, it it sound a bit familiar with the Perodua Axia which use 1KR-DE2 engine, both from the 1KR family with the 1KR-VET bolt on with a turbocharger.

So is they using similar gasket? We take a look at one well-known Japan parts website jp-carparts.com, we found that most of the gasket part number is different for both 1KR model, from the rocker cover diagram, you may find this 1KR-VET rocker cover gasket looks similar with the 1KR-DE2 type, but it have 3 extra small square or rectangular box shape as pointed by the 3 orange arrow in the above photo.

Of course Ativa is still a new launching model which we sure not in the rush to keep this gasket in our inventories, furthermore, we still need to observe if the local Ativa 1KR-VET is really exactly the same engine with the one using in Japan.