odd carb gaskets

[grumpyvette]

Ive had several times when guys have brought over rare or odd carbs or applications where the gaskets required are no longer available,
most hardware stores sell 6"x6" squares of rubberized gasket material about 1/16" or 1/8" thick thats got some type of fabric sandwiched into the sheet of gasket material for under $10 , even if its not exactly perfect its been used for hundreds of applications and mostly with some success. theres O-ring assortments that are dirt cheap that can at times pay for the whole box , just having a single o-ring handy , or making a FUEL PRESSURE DIAPHRAGM in an emergency is sometime a huge help, and theres plenty of discontinued tunnel ram intakes that you can,t find specific gaskets for any longer where fabricating your own with an exacto knife from sheet gasket material is the only option.

http://www.amazon.com/Waxman-7626600N-R ... B002RML6P2

http://www.harborfreight.com/397-piece- ... 67580.html

http://www.harborfreight.com/13-piece-p ... 32099.html

http://www.harborfreight.com/382-piece- ... 67554.html

 

[Indycars]

If you can NOT reach thru the part to trace on your gasket material, those areas that you will need to cut out, then you can use this trick to identify those areas. Now I wasn't making a gasket for the oil pump, but I still needed to identify the internal shape so I could see where the oil pump did NOT match the rear main cap.

Use a hammer to gently tape around the edges of the edges in question, this will leave a very defined line that you can cut out with the Exacto knife or some times the tapping with a hammer will actually cut thru the gasket material.

 

[grumpyvette]

thanks for posting the tip!
Im sure it will come in hand at times :mrgreen: