Well, down here in da bayou da cajuns use watever dey gots to do da job, I hers gator gut stretched out does a pretty goot job of makin a gasket. But if I rembembers goot da gasket hold da spacer up in der & keeps it from fallin down in da manifold...better look real goot at how dat t-stat spacer is retained, dey used a couple different kinds back den, don't know which one u gots. I tried puttin dat picture back in and it said again it was too big...my guess is I ain't doin somthin right, how small I gots to roll dat picture up to shove it down dis cable. My puter says it be a 415KB jpeg file watever dat means.