As it turns out, this gasket has no up or down. This gasket is the one from the crossover pipe to the EGR mount plate. I guess it's made of graphite. It disintigrated. I scraped the remains of the gasket off with my fingernail. This gasket was purchased new from TFS in November of 2017, and has fewer than 500 miles on it. Something isn't right. Wouldn't you figure that should be an aluminum gasket?
Meanwhile, I went back to rent the fuel gauge. That's fine and dandy, except now they think it's lost. That was O'Reilly's, where they couldn't find parking light bulbs, because they didn't come up in their computer. So I asked about buying one. Not my day. They didn't have one in stock on ghe shelf, although the computer says they have several varieties. They checked with some other locations, but none actually had any any in stock. So I tried Autozone, Advance, and NAPA. I wasn't sure they really knew what they were looking for, so I showed them a picture. Apparently, they didn't appreciate my help. What is the likelihood that all major parts retailers in a major metropolitan area are out of fuel gauges at the same time, although their computer says they have it, AND the stores aren't aware of this defficiency?
The counter robots were similarly unable to locate parking light bulbs. I found the bulbs, no help from them.
As for the gasket, local retailers do not carry this part, or even recognize that it exists, because it isn't listed in their system at all.