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General Category => Engine & Transmission => Topic started by: oil-lamp on January 25, 2014, 02:58:34 PM

Title: Found during teardown.
Post by: oil-lamp on January 25, 2014, 02:58:34 PM: Found this during teardown of #2 engine. I wonder if it played a part in its initial removal from the bike it was on?
Title: Re: Found during teardown.
Post by: Mike Sal on January 25, 2014, 04:46:28 PM: Gotta love it. I fixed an old ford for a gal one time that suffered from her idiot son in law working on it. When I pulled the intake manifold off, all of the port openings were about the size of a dime, as he had put lots of blue RTV on the gasket & it had squished into the opening.

Let's hope that's the worst thing you find!
MikeSal
Title: Re: Found during teardown.
Post by: Sonrisers on January 25, 2014, 05:20:04 PM: Should I use any kind of gasket sealer when I put my motor back together? Or just use the gaskets I got from Wayne???
Title: Re: Found during teardown.
Post by: oil-lamp on January 25, 2014, 05:27:55 PM: If you use anything use very little. Just enough to keep the gaskets in place. ::)
Title: Re: Found during teardown.
Post by: Ricks on January 25, 2014, 05:47:51 PM: Here is what I use. I put just a smear on the cylinder, compression plate and exhaust gaskets.
Title: Re: Found during teardown.
Post by: pd on January 25, 2014, 06:14:40 PM: I don't use any sealer on any of the motor gaskets .

But I cut my own gaskets from rubberized gasket material .

Pete . :)
Title: Re: Found during teardown.
Post by: pd on January 25, 2014, 06:19:24 PM: Quote from: oil-lamp on January 25, 2014, 02:58:34 PM
Found this during teardown of #2 engine. I wonder if it played a part in its initial removal from the bike it was on?

Hopefully there was a carb on that intake to help keep the crankcase somewhat clean . The throat seems to be OK .

Pete . :)
Title: Re: Found during teardown.
Post by: Sonrisers on January 25, 2014, 06:27:04 PM: What engine is that off of Reese? The blue one, black, or another engine all together?
Title: Re: Found during teardown.
Post by: Mike Sal on January 26, 2014, 08:52:01 AM: I like to use a thin smear of sealer on my gaskets (unless you have the rubberized material like PD has). I was a water pump engineer for 20 years & learned a lot about fibre gaskets from the gasket companies. They are more pourous than you would think.
Mike Sal