The worst task when fettling a bike is...............

My vote is for trying to remove baked-on gasket and/or gasket compound
without scratching the mating surfaces.

 

The easy way:

http://www.amazon.com/Versachem-Gasket-Remover-9-75-aerosol/dp/B0002JN5CO

HTH

 

I have found that Nitromors paint stripper often does the trick - but I
didn't have any left today.

 

The easy and cheap way is to use oven cleaner on the gaskets. Leave for a
while, and then they will be soft enough to be removed pretty easily.

k

 

You can buy special gasket scrapers for that, but take a kitchen knife,
cut it square at the end and blunt the end edge a bit.

Or just use an agnle grinder.

 

That and a bog scraper.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

As many oven cleaners dissolve aluminium this is a really stupid idea. As
well as softening gaskets it would be likley to cause pitting on the mating
surfaces. It is easy to see how you could end up spending £1000 trying to
rebuild a simple 2-stroke twin engine such as an RD250 (cf. RD250 thread
above). Most of it would be spent repairing the fuckups that you were
responsible for. You REALLY are a clueless **** aren't you?

 

I wonder how many years you have worked in the motorcycle trade, and how
many engines you have rebuilt during that time?

k

 

I wonder how many engines you had your hands on that came back in for
further rectification work?

 

Feel free to wonder as much as you like. Then get round to explaining why
using aluminium-dissolving chemicals on aluminium mating surfaces is a good
idea. No wonder your business went bust.

 

Mine is trying to remove old rusted taper roller head races.

A Dremel is your friend.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, TMack

Easy.

Refitting the carb rubbers on a GPz900R.

Five minutes alone in a locked room with the designer, that's all I ask.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

 

elbow grease and liquid gasket normally works for me

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, mr p

" "

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

 

Fitting new brake hoses to a GL1500.

Changing the clutch on a GL1500.

Changing the head bearings on a GL1500.

Changing the plugs on a Blackbird.

Valve clearances on a CBX.

--
| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \
_/_____\_ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/CBX1000Z
|_\_____/_| ..87753../..22653.../..31893.
(>|_|_|<) TPPFATUICG#7 DIAABTCOD#9 WG*
|__|_|__| BOTAFOT #70 BOTAFOF #09 PM#5
\ |^| / IbW#0 & KotIbW# BotTOS#6 GP#4
\|^|/ ANORAK#17 IbB#4 YTC#4 two#11
'^' RBR Clues: 84 Pts:1800 Miles:5704

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SD

Y'know there's a pattern here. I can't quite put my finger on it, but
there's a definite pattern.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha Vmax Honda ST1100 wiv trailer