Make your own Gaskets, PDF Scans for some DIY

TimmyT · May 17, 2014

Sorry should have posted these sooner, but thought it would be nice to share. My bike is a 1978 SOHC so if anyone else has more to share post them here or at least the links. These were all scanned to PDF format and with scales on the x and y axis for refrence.

Stock up on your corn flakes! O rings are scanned for size refrence only and I would recommend to actually purchase the head gasket with the metal rings as it might be pretty hard to make.

iamunique127 · May 17, 2014

Hey TT, I needed 3 of those.

Thanks a lot

levdir · May 18, 2014

Gasket material at Summit Racing
You can buy real gasket material relatively cheaply, too, if you don't trust cereal-box cardboard. I've never tried it, how well does it work?

TimmyT · May 19, 2014

As a disclaimer I would never use it myself and I do would not recommend cereal box cardboard though it could work. I have tried gasket maker gunk as well, and it held the oil in alright but there really is no clean or orderly application other than goop it on and hope not too much squeezes into the engine side... and it will. A cereal box may work as a temporary fix but I would recommend real gaskets every time unless you are in a pinch. The box no doubt will hold up where pressed between the cases but I think the overhang would disintegrate within your engine after some time. I was mostly kidding around on that comment but thanks for calling BS on me just so nobody walks away with the wrong idea.

Hope others can post more gaskets for the other variations of this bike.

HoughMade · May 19, 2014

The old guys (in the '50s and '60s) made gaskets from cardboard boxes all the time. I've done it for work on an antique tractor. Done right, they work fine, given that old bikes usually came apart for maintenance on a regular basis, and therefore, were not expected to last for years and years at a time.

HOWEVER, I use real gasket paper because there is no reason not to. $5 to $10 (maybe $15) will buy enough to do just about the whole engine. Ace Hardware, or pretty much every auto parts store have it.

Make your own Gaskets, PDF Scans for some DIY

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