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Re-use or replace?
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 10:26 am
by aphid
I you can see I have removed the vario cover to rub down and respray the flaky paint. As advised I intended reusing the gasket when I refit it. Now that I have seen it it looks to me like it’s seen better days and I should replace it? Having no real experience of such things, reuse or replace?
Re: Re-use or replace?
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 10:33 am
by Mel46
Remove the gasket, clean the surfaces thoroughly and buy a new gasket. The objective of the gasket is to keep "stuff" out. It looks like that one can no longer do the job.
Re: Re-use or replace?
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 11:20 am
by aphid
Thanks Mel46. I thought that was the logical answer but there are some very thrifty people out there!
Re: Re-use or replace?
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 12:38 pm
by gn2
Mel46 wrote:Remove the gasket, clean the surfaces thoroughly and buy a new gasket. The objective of the gasket is to keep "stuff" out. It looks like that one can no longer do the job.
But the casing is a tunnel through which cooling air (and all manner of dirt and rain) is forced.
The gasket is there to stop the casing seizing onto the crankcase.
I've never replaced one, just a wipe round with copper grease is all I've ever done.
If you really have to have a new gasket, cut one out of a cereal box carton using the casing as a template.
Re: Re-use or replace?
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 3:04 pm
by aphid
I’ll see what I can get one for online. If it’s not too much I think I’ll get a new one. There is so much rust on the one I have removed. No doubt the original one fitted on the production line 6 years ago.