I got a full upper and lower gasket set for my 1988 3VZE and I can't figure out what some of the gaskets are for. My set didn't come with any kind of list as to what it included. Can anyone identify these gaskets?


Two metal crush ring looking things and then one rubber o-ring with a spring in it that looks like a camshaft ring, but it's not

 

The green ones are exhaust sealing rings.

The brown one is an oil seal of some stripe, maybe for the front crankshaft seal??

 

Yes. The top pictures is for sure exhaust cross over pipe or down pipe rings and the other is a crank seal. Probably rear main seal. The bottom picture looks like a thermostat housing seal. And the little ring gasket next to it has me stumped.

 

Definitely not the rear main. So if it's not a camshaft, then definitely the front main. The 2 in the bottom pic are none of the above. I've never figured out what the bigger triangular one is, definitely not thermostat housing. And the smaller round one I've never seen before.

 

Thank you for all the responses, fellas. I'll be sure to label them. If no one knows what the paper gaskets are, then I guess they aren't important enough to replace


I figured I'd just leave this here so you guys can see how my top end rebuild is going.

 

The big paper looks like egr modulator gasket?.? The little one is for the flux capacitor.

 

...what EGR..

 

Aaahhhh! The flux capacitor! How did I over look that?

 

top to bottom

front crank seal - brown
exhaust gaskets- blue/green
egr gasket- triangle
round gasket---- nothing silicone can fix...lol

 

My guess for the round paper one is oil pan drain bolt....hard to tell how big it is.

 

Probably.^^
Wrong.

 

I would contact the company that sold the gasket set and ask them " WTF IS THIS!??!"

 

I don't know how I didn't realize it before. The round one definitely is the drain plug gasket. We just use a little different looking ones at work, but it is the paper Toyota drain plug gasket.

 

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