d-wood

I used the right stuff on my oil pan and had to take my pan back off after I realized my pan was bent. Well this was 2 or three days later that the rtv was on and it was still gummy and not completly dry.
Is that normal?

nv4runner

Gummy like sticky or gummy like flexible? Flexible is fine. Sticky might be too depending on what kind you used. Make sure it is compatible with oil or it may never cure.

carman594

Right stuff black is what I've used on all my oil pans. Works great

d-wood

Sticky like some of it dried and some didn't dry so well.

wyoming9

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Depends did it cure or did it freeze???

d-wood

Surely it didn't freeze. Down here in southern Alabama and the coldest it's been is 40 degrees if that lately.

highonpottery

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old tube? i've always used either Permatex RTV or Toyota FIPG black, they always cure for me.

one-part silicones, like RTV in a tube, cure from the outside-in unlike the 2-part silicones that use a catalyst. IIRC it's moisture/humidity that it reacts with to cure the one-part silicone. If it's been squished in there and sealed up of course the center may be tacky still after a day or two, the moisture is trying to penetrate through cured/semi-cured RTV to get the the core - it could take a week to fully cure in some environments.

If you got a 100% failure of this RTV curing, then it's something else.

d-wood

Right on. Yes cause some was dry but a lot not so much. I did do a test today and squirt some out the tube and if dried in no time. Maybe after I install the fipg I will put a heater on it. It's gonna be 30 low to 50 high this weekend when I attempt round two. Thanks for the responses.