Clutch Cover Gasket - liquid gasket ok?

Anyone ever used liquid gasket on the clutch cover? Thinking of using
it instead of finding/buying the part.

 

You want a silicone gasket material which cures for that, like Loctite 598

 

Don't. Proper gaskets exist for a reason. The liquid stuff
(Hylomar?) just ends up clogging the oilways, and your engine
self-destructs.

 

Thanks again, just bought some

 

This man speaks the truth.

You can get away with using liquid gaskets for years if you're really
careful about wiping away any excess but the one time you slip up
could **** your engine if the worst case scenario occurs.

 

Use sparingly.

And you're a daft twat for not spending a few quid on the proper gasket.

 

I wouldn't hesitate to use a decent gloop the clutch cover of a two
stroke, in fact I used some stuff from the local quincaillerie on the
faux WR250 when I fettled the clutch.

Not sure I would risk it on the Tart or Nordies.

<pats dry clutch Morini>
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Nor me. I assumed the OP had a four-stroke, though.

 

And if you choose your gasket source wisely, you get a free box of
cornflakes.

 

yes its a 750 katana. now ordered the correct gasket to be on the
safe side - just wanted to do the job tonight - lazy!
thanks folks

 

Daft sod. It'll leak.
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Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

In communiqué <1id8sfw.c93vfq1ld8fc8N%>,

A reasonable, and almost certainly correct, assumption these days.

BTW, after years of generally foreswearing machines from the land of the
rising sun I am really impressed with both the YZs. The 96 250 goes
amazingly well and after a decade still submits to disassembly without
heartache. The lad's 2004 YZ85 is really nicely put together, and so far
seemingly bomb proof, even after dropping it at the MX practice track
yesterday and digging the twist grip deep in to the dirt. I hadn't
instructed him in the need to instantly go for the kill button in such
circumstances. Screamed it's head off for a few seconds but seems to
have survived.

If the four strokes are as good I could be tempted by something with a
yzf thumper motor.


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I've used blue hylomar three times on the Wing, and it's never leaked
a drop.

 

It's OE on some BMW engine joins and I've never had a problem. Sparing use
being important.

 

Yebbut, I bet you had the old gasket on there as well?

For some reason I read the OP as using liquid gasket *instead of* the
paper gasket.
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Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

Ah that's a different matter....
If it requires a gasket then use one but lots of engines have joint faces
which only use black bond or the like.

 

I had an R100/7 that, when I took the sump pan off for a look-see, appeared
to have been gasketed with fishtank silicon goop. There were strings of
beads of the stuff floating about in the sump. I cleaned it out as best I
could, and kept my fingers crossed. A couple of thousand miles later, one
big end turned its plain bearings into something resembling compressed
heat-treated tinfoil.

 

Ssshhhh, you'll scare the fishes away.

I wasn't sure, so went for the deceptively helpful approach.

 

So did I.