Coolant Seal Elastomer for Diesel Engine Head Gasket

1993, SAE Technical Paper Series

Abstract

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However, in a_ high-output diesel engine, conventional VMQ seal caused coolant leakages in engine tests. Thus the improved VMQ coolant seal has been developed. high brittle point (-20 8C). The HNBR also has not enough low temperature property (TR 10% : -25 8C) for a cold district. Since the EPDM is not resistant to mineral oils, the EPDM coolant seal may cause a swelling problem by leaked oil from adjacent oil seals. Thus VMQs have the best durability over a wide range of temperature (TR 10% : -48 8C) and have been adopted to the coolant seals.

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small quantity of silica filler, show high tensile strength and high elongation. The low silica VMQs Fig. 3 - Effect of contact surface on rubber compression stress(H. Kaneko) 3)

Fig. 4 - Relationship between silica filler content and VMQ properties

In a trial generator engine for an emergency use, the previous VMQ-P cracked after only in 18 operating hours (Fig. 9). This engine had been used for two years without a coolant change. White precipitation was deposited on the seal surface and the coolant smelt strongly of mold. From a thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), it was found that the VMQ-P polymer was decomposed to lower molecular weight materials (Table 1). In the cracked seal, the polymer fraction of lower decomposition temperature (880 - 440 8C) increases and the polymer fraction of 440 - 530 8C decreases. The white precipitation contained salts of strong

Fig. 7 - S-N Diagram of VMQ coolant seals t, : Seal thickness. t, : Gasket thickness

Table 3 indicates the organic acids immersion test results. Since the improved VMQ-O is adopted a water resistant silicone polymer, the elongation change is smaller than that of the previous VMQ-P. Furthermore, the endurance seal tests on the immersed both VMQ seals in a 10% acetic acid were conducted using the head-gasket seal tester. The results are shown in Fig. 11 - 12. The fatigue life of the previous VMQ-P was drastically dropped to 1/50 by 10 % acetic acid. The failure of the

Fig. 10. lon chromatography analysis of white precipitation

not generate the bubble. By a pressure-sensitive paper (Fuji Paper), the changes of seal pressure distribution changes were measured at several compression ratios. The previous VMQ-P caused the unequal contact above 28% compression ratio (Fig. 17), but the contact of the improved VMQ-O is quite uniform up to 50% (Table 4). These in homogeneous contact of the previous VMQ-P can cause the coolant leakage. Both the improved VMQ-O and the VMQ/EPDM-R, contained only fine silica, show the uniform contact. The previous VMQ-P and commercial VMQ-A, contained coarse diatomite (Fig. 18), show unequal contact. These facts indicate that the unequal contact originates from the diatomite.

SUMMARY Table 4 — Upper limit of compression ratio for uniform contact

Fig. 16 - Visual observation of VMQs seal contact

ENGINE BENCH TEST RESULTS

APPENDIX II VMQs compatibility with various coolants

REFERENCES APPENDIX I Environmental stress cracking test results a eee FF LE ol! oT of Me ore re ene Ae oe og fo Yon 7 2 | ee Test conditions : 50% compression, 1508C X 7Ohrs Dipping in distillate water with 2% SCA