Anyone know where I can get a custom gasket made up? I have the LHS engine cover which the gasket will be for off the bike and a picture of the gasket, is that enough to get one made up?
Somewhere around auckland cheers.
Epic Motherfucker
Anyone know where I can get a custom gasket made up? I have the LHS engine cover which the gasket will be for off the bike and a picture of the gasket, is that enough to get one made up?
Somewhere around auckland cheers.
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Rider in training
I've just embarked on that process myself.
Go to Repco and buy some gasket paper. Lay the cover down and draw around it. Mark the holes out. Use a hole punch to knock the holes out, and a sharp knife.
Some people suggest putting a ring of oil around the cover before putting it on the paper. The trick with this is when you take the cover back off the gasket paper it leaves a mark that is easy to cut around.
Paper is cheap. Doesn't matter if you cock one up.
Rider in training
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Forum whore
You can use stamp pad ink on the cover's gasket surface and poke a screw into the holes to mark them
Highway Biker
The other way, the old fashioned way that mechanics have been doing for a hundred years, is to lay the gasket paper on the sidecover and tap around the outer edge of the side cover with a ball pein hammer ( tap the gasket paper, not the side cover). The gasket paper then cuts itself to exactly the same profile as the side cover. You use the ball end of the ball pein hammer to tap out the holes. Takes a bit of practice but is the best way to cut a gasket perfectly.
Double shot!!
Yep, making your own FTW.. its easy, just hold the part down firmly and knife around it. Often, inside the gasket is not so critical.
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Forum whore
And often whats inside the gasket is very important.Originally Posted by DangerousBastard
Some covers incorporate oil gallery chambers.
Forum whore
There's a place around Waimauku that does them. Can't remember the name, but if I remember tomorrow when I head up that way, will look at the sign (on the lhs just before the Waimauku shops). Gather it's some distance from you, but you said around Auckland
Forum whore
When using hole punches (to make holes, obviously) put the paper on the end grain of a block of wood and tap the punch with a hammer. Will make a much cleaner hole than if punching onto the side grain of the wood, esp. if the wood is soft ie pine. Also worth marking, and then punching the holes first. Then put the screws or bolts though the gasket and into the case. Then when you cut round using the previously described ball pein hammer method, the gasket stays correctly located.
Pizza box cardboard makes acceptable base gaskets for two stroke cylinders, if it's late Saturday night and you're going riding Sunday morning...
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
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Ahh Ed's finest work. Used to love reading the 'Duct Tapes'
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Hardcore Biker
Coke can boxes make fine gaskets. Several months in service so far.
Forum whore
"Bikers of a cetain age..."
Mike Shuter had a column in Cycle called "The Downhill Straight" but it wasn't quite in the same league as the Duct Tapes
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
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Refugee from the Rhondda
The way I was taught (in the good-old / bad-old days when tradesmen still wore a collar and tie under their coveralls) - Do the bolt holes first - a ball bearing's ideal for that - and drop a bolt into each hole after you've cut it to hold the material in place, then, using the ball-peen hammer, cut any galleries, then the inside edges, finishing with the outside. Just make sure you check there's no gasket material in the holes or galleries before re-assembling.
BTW, when I first went into the merchant navy, my first chief engineer - a permanently pissed Glaswegian - gave me a right bollocking for calling anything other than a cylinder head seal a gasket. "They're joints laddie" Them was the days.......
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You must be an old bugger. I wonder if a Duct Tapes collection has ever been published. I would love to get my hands on that.
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Hardcore Biker
You could make one but being a side cover it may be complicated with random cut outs. If you were in hamilton id say talk to the guys at Better Industrial in Frankton. They make them thats basicly all they do so they must be good at it.
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