Found during teardown.

[oil-lamp]

Found this during teardown of #2 engine.  I wonder if it played a part in its initial removal from the bike it was on?

[Mike Sal]

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

[Sonrisers]

Should I use any kind of gasket sealer when I put my motor back together? Or just use the gaskets I got from Wayne???

[oil-lamp]

If you use anything use very little. Just enough to keep the gaskets in place.   

[Ricks]

Here is what I use.  I put just a smear on the cylinder, compression plate and exhaust gaskets.

[pd]

I don't use any sealer on any of the motor gaskets .

But I cut my own gaskets from rubberized gasket material .

Pete .

[pd]

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 .

[Sonrisers]

What engine is that off of Reese? The blue one, black, or another engine all together?

[Mike Sal]

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