Do you make your own gaskets ?

[909]

Well do you ? Any tips ?

Or are you the type can't be bothered and just order an OEM gasket ?

 

[dingbat]

Well do you ? Any tips ?

Or are you the type can't be bothered and just order an OEM gasket ?

Just throw a roll of gasket paper that I bought to make a NLA transmission gasket for a lawn tractor back in 1992.

Has nothing to do with “can’t be bothered” and everything to do with cost.

By the time you source the correct material, hardness and thickness of gasket material, make the pattern and cut it out, you have far more into it than ordering an OE gasket and having it delivered in a day or two

 

[Scott Danforth]

the only time I make gaskets is if its a Sunday afternoon and I cant get a gasket to drive to work on Monday or the gasket is NLA. otherwise as dingbat stated, not worth it when the correct gasket is available.

 

[racerone]

All the time.----Made a fixture to punch neat clean bolt holes.

 

[tphoyt]

I actually enjoy making gaskets.

 

[Crosbyman]

I have made some where pressure and heat is not a critical issue
ex: impeller base gasket , intake manifold etc...

Cyl heads = OEM !!

 

[909]

What about carb gaskets

 

[tphoyt]

Only in a pinch for me as the last time I did I blew it twice at the very end of the project.
Very frustrating

 

[Crosbyman]

What about carb gaskets

can't see why not .. no heat or much pressure in the carb. but carb kits come with them and not verry $$$$

 

[Scott Danforth]

What about carb gaskets

the price of the correct carb gasket set is usually less than the cost of a complete correct kit. I have made base gaskets and bowl gaskets in an emergency.