Getting a head gasket made

[Sam_68]

Matthew-TMM said:

Thanks for that, so you reckon gasket paper is up to the job of a head gasket then? Never having bought it before, are there different types and thicknesses?

Pah! Gasket paper if for rich people!

I had a mate with a Yamaha RD350LC who used to make his head gaskets out of old cornflake packets! He did go through a fair few, mind...

[Mr2Mike]

If it's a two stroke, one trick I have used before is to lap the head onto the block (using fine valve grinding paste) and put it together with a smear of high temperature sealant. This was purely to up the comnpression ratio at he time, and it may not be suitable for your engine.

That gasket should be dead easy to make out of copper sheet though. A sharp craft knife is enough to cut thin copper (the bolt holes could be done with a sharp gasket punch), and something that small could be easily annealed with a small blow lamp. Solid copper gaskets can also be reused a few times by annealing them again. Probably not the cheapest, but something like this should be ok.

[Matthew-TMM]

Thanks folks.