Hey Folks I have an 87 Mazda B2200 & need the Pre-Converter gasket that goes between the exhaust manifold & the 1st converter. Any of you know where I can get one online?

 

Order from your friendly Mazda dealer.

 

Thanks for the suggestion, but our local dealer closed a few years ago after being run by a crook for a few years and then being sold to a dealer from out of state who just didn't really try to make it work. I have also e-mailed the 2 nearest dealers (Biloxi, MS. & Jackson, MS) & recieved no reply. Apparently a single gasket for an older truck isn't worth their time.

Anyway thanks to someone on another forum I was able to come up with a FEL-PRO part number that I oredered through Advanced Auto parts with a total cost of about $3.25. The FEL-PRO Part number is 60534 & I have attached a picture of the gasket setting on top of the converter just so anyone looking at this will know exactly which gasket we are talking about & that it is correct.

 

Thanks. 60534 helps me, turns out that can be ordered through Autozone.

I stilll haven't found a place for the air tube gasket, EXH 31548 at NAPAonline.com. Their picture is OK, but wrong gasket came in to store.

 

This is my favorite thing about specialty forums receiving & sharing good useable information that can easily be found & used by many.


Walkers Part Number for the air tube gasket is 31548 which is correct if you are referring to the little gasket at the base of the pre-converter for the flange of the 2 Metal Tubes that run back up to your reed valve box on the breather. I have oredered more than one of these over the years with one just purchased a couple of weeks ago for this current repair of a friends truck.


Here's a link to Walker Exhaust who have some great diagrams & lots of exhaust parts at reasonable prices. You can also get your local parts house to see if they can cross-reference numbers to ROL's number who usually have good coverage and great prices(O'Reilly's carries this brand).

http://www.walkerexhaust.com/catalog...letypescrn.asp



$2.29 at O'Reillys....

http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/se...?keyword=31548

 

My two local O'Reillys can't get this, and at the link you supplied http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/se...?keyword=31548 there was no online ordering.

However, at http://shop.oreillyauto.com/ProductD...rtNumber=31548 I apparently CAN order online, shipped to my house.

 

Sorry that the link did not do you anygood...

My local O'Reilly's said it was a factory order that would require shipping charges but my Local Advance Auto had one in there regional warehouse & got it to me overnight with no freight charges for like $3.05...

Best of luck in aquiring one. If you can't get it locally give me a shout & i'll get another thru Advance & send it to you via USPS for the cost of the gasket & whatever postage is which shouldn't be much since it will fit in an envelope.

 

Ok you were talking about the 31548 gasket, but same thing if you need me to get it just let me know.

 

I re-did all my exhaust gaskets yesterday, from pre-converter down, except for that one; I have the air tubes removes, the gasket sealed a block off plate I made from a Simpson Strong-Tie from Home Depot. I just left that block off plate on (sealed using the original gasket) when I removed the pipe below the pre-converter.

Anyway, I had been experiencing a rattle issue from the exhaust. I pulled a loose "soft" ring out of the pre-converter, and a loose metal-clad ring from the 2nd converter, and buttoned it up with new gaskets. And the rattle is gone.
Pre-converter gasket on left, 2nd converter gasket on right.

 

I also blocked off the air pipe using the factory type gasket & a rectangular piece of steel plate. This truck has no converters after the pre, apparently someone else had previously removed them. On my personal truck i'm running a weber carb & the pace header setup with a Walker factory replacement muffler.