Another nutty idea

Apr 07, 2004 10 Replies
M

So there I was, in the middle of the night trying to put my engine together. Wouldn't you know it? No carb-to-manifold gaskets. Drat.



But I did have a roll of gasket material. High-temp stuff I got at Pep Boys for some project. So I turned a junk carb over and sprayed a little paint on the bottom. Then I pressed the carb onto the gasket material like a stamp, thus:



http://63.230.74.177/ghia/MVC-476F.JPG While that paint dried, I cleaned the carb off with mineral spirits. Then I could just cut out the new gaskets.



Hozsat?



Max


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M

Ingenuity is the mother of invention. Or something like that. Great idea!

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M

Bril'lnt.

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J

I do that on a regular basis :)

Note that for installing at least stock aluminum intake manifold end piueces to dual port heads, is a place where I'd only use the original type metal gaskets. The bolt spacing is so wide that a soft paper gasket will not compress properly near the center, and will compress plenty at the ends where the bolts are. Many end castings have cracked from the bolt hole because of this. (Overtorquing the nuts must have helped)

Jan

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M
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This makes sense. My manifolds were installed with soft elastomeric (squishy) black gaskets. They appeared to be kind of stuck to the heads and in good condition, so I left them in place an re-used them. Anyone know what these gaskets were?

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J

On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 08:10:23 -0700, "Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott" ran around screaming and yelling:

probably these:

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these are what i use and recomend....i used to make my own out of "Garloc"(R), which is used to make flange gaskets in piping systems...good s*it, but makes the parts a "biatch" to remove...so i now use the above linked ones...(i bought them from john and plan to order another couple sets to keep around, because i only have one set left..) JT

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M

I don't think so -- John's description says "fiber," which these are not. More like flubber. Squishy. Sticky. Mooshy. Other words that end with "y".

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J

Just don't go crazy with torque.

Jan

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J

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:57:36 +0300, Jan Andersson ran around screaming and yelling:

what? sheesh....torque it till it snaps, then back it off a quarter.... JT

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B

I used to use JC Whitney catalog covers! -BH

excellent gasket

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