I've got my 1.9L waterboxer apart right now and am looking for opinions
about two items. Number one is that there seems to be a couple of different
gasket kits available.  In particular, the kit from VW provides multiple
sealants, for the water jacket gaskets specifically and special stuff for
sealing the nuts.  Other kits include one generic sealant for everything.
Any opinions about the generic stuff?  I believe it is something like Curil
or some such name.  And is it used on the head nuts as well?

Also the recent talk about oil galley plugs failing makes me wonder if while
the case is in the machine shop should I have them tapped and plugged with
threaded plugs?  I am also going to have them drill and tap a separate hole
in the case for the VDO temperature sender so that I can use the standard
oil drain plug.

I'm going to
Thanks.
Bill