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Custom Gasket Making

Murbella – Day 36 – First attempt at a gasket

Posted on 2020-06-072020-06-07

I decided to try making my first custom gasket today. I learned that I need for sharper tools to do this.

The gaskets I need to make
The gaskets I need to make

I need to make three gaskets (above) that are used to either seal the 2 plenum halves (right), seal the throttle body to the plenum (top left) or the oil filler to the plenum (bottom right).

I chose the oil filler gasket as my first sample.

Gasket making
Tracing out the original

I traced out the original on the fiber material. This gasket material is quite a bit thicker, but the other one of course was compressed for 41 years so who knows what it started out life as.

Gasket making
Punching the holes

I’m happy I listened to the guy at Jegs and bought a set of hole punches. These at least came out nice and the punch can easy go through the material once hammered.

Gasket making
Well… I need far sharper tools

Trying to actually cut out the shape with a razor blade was not so easy.

The blade, while brand new, can’t go through the whole layer. This resulted in several not so clean cuts that I had to go over again and again and then from the other side.

But… it kind of looks like the original.

Custom Gasket Making
Fitting on the plenum body

Well. It kind of fits. Needs a lot of work.

Custom Gasket Making
Fitment on the oil filler

What’s odd is that the inner hole was traced fairly well from the original. Yet it really isn’t even the shape.

Custom Gasket Making
Sealed

I’m wondering if in fact a modern silicone gasket maker liquid may not be a better idea here. A thin layer coating, compress the two parts to seal. I wonder.

Custom Gasket Making
Custom Gasket Making

I suppose with a sharp enough blade I could then cut any excess off.


Obviously, I’m going to need some far sharper tools, perhaps a real heavy-duty set of scissors, to cut this material cleanly.

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