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Posted: **Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:56 am**

Gasket Removal ? Anyone willing to share strategies on speeding up gasket removal ? The cover gasket – on the right, clutch, side – has lived there for 71k miles. Been using a single edge razor, a chisel, brass brush and dental tools. Also applies some brake parts cleaner with a toothbrush. So far a painfully slow process. Any advice appreciated. Bogdan

Posted: **Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:22 pm**

Gasket Removal ? First choice would be a wire wheel. Bench mounted for the cover or a 3 to 4 inch cup in a hand drill for the case or cover. Also a sharp chisel edged gasket scraper but be careful not to gouge the aluminum. If it is really stubborn even with a wire wheel then the Permatex gasket remover also known as acid in a can will soften it up for easy removal as well as remove paint skin destroy clothes and just about anything else it comes in contact with except metal.

Walt

[b]From:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com] [b]On Behalf Of [/b]Bogdan Swider [b]Sent:[/b] Monday, March 08, 2010 12:56 PM [b]To:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [b]Subject:[/b] [DSN_KLR650] Gasket Removal ?

Anyone willing to share strategies on speeding up gasket removal ? The cover gasket – on the right, clutch, side – has lived there for 71k miles. Been using a single edge razor, a chisel, brass brush and dental tools. Also applies some brake parts cleaner with a toothbrush. So far a painfully slow process. Any advice appreciated. Bogdan

Posted: **Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:25 pm**

#ygrps-yiv-941388065 p {margin:0;}I don't know if it would work in this instance, but I don't think I've found anything that K&W carb cleaner won't take off. Be careful though, it burns the skin somethin' fierce. WAY better than gumout, etc. -Jeff Khoury

----- Original Message ----- From: "k650" To: "Bogdan Swider" , "DSN KLR650" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, March 8, 2010 10:22:25 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: RE: [DSN_KLR650] Gasket Removal ? First choice would be a wire wheel. Bench mounted for the cover or a 3 to 4 inch cup in a hand drill for the case or cover. Also a sharp chisel edged gasket scraper but be careful not to gouge the aluminum. If it is really stubborn even with a wire wheel then the Permatex gasket remover also known as acid in a can will soften it up for easy removal as well as remove paint skin destroy clothes and just about anything else it comes in contact with except metal.

Walt

[b]From:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com] [b]On Behalf Of [/b]Bogdan Swider [b]Sent:[/b] Monday, March 08, 2010 12:56 PM [b]To:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [b]Subject:[/b] [DSN_KLR650] Gasket Removal ?

Anyone willing to share strategies on speeding up gasket removal ? The cover gasket on the right, clutch, side has lived there for 71k miles. Been using a single edge razor, a chisel, brass brush and dental tools. Also applies some brake parts cleaner with a toothbrush. So far a painfully slow process. Any advice appreciated. Bogdan

Posted: **Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:26 pm**

Bogdan, I've heard good things about Permatex gasket remover. http://www.pdfdownload.org/pdf2html/vie ... F%2F rel="nofollow">www.getmsds.co.il%2F80646t.pdf> Mike Martin, Louisville, KY [b]From:[/b] Bogdan Swider [b][/b] Anyone willing to share strategies on speeding up gasket removal ?

Posted: **Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:55 pm**

Posted: **Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:03 pm**

Put some Goo-Gone, or something like it on a rag and work it in. Then take an old plastic room key from the hotel no one knows about and scrap the surfaces off. The card can be resharpened by scrapping the edge clean with a razor blade or sharp knife. Git in thar in git it dun!! TK [b]From:[/b] Bogdan Swider [b]To:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [b]Sent:[/b] Mon, March 8, 2010 12:55:36 PM [b]Subject:[/b] [DSN_KLR650] Gasket Removal ? Anyone willing to share strategies on speeding up gasket removal ? The cover gasket on the right, clutch, side has lived there for 71k miles. Been using a single edge razor, a chisel, brass brush and dental tools. Also applies some brake parts cleaner with a toothbrush. So far a painfully slow process. Any advice appreciated. Bogdan

Posted: **Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:20 am**

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Bogdan Swider wrote:

> > > > > Anyone willing to share strategies on speeding up gasket removal ? The cover > gasket on the right, clutch, side has lived there for 71k miles. Been > using a single edge razor, a chisel, brass brush and dental tools. Also > applies some brake parts cleaner with a toothbrush. So far a painfully slow > process. Any advice appreciated. > > Bogdan >

For the really stubborn ones, I use Permatex gasket remover and a blade of some kind. Razor blade, penknife, putty knife, gasket scraper. I don't like what a wire wheel will do to an alloy surface, but I suppose there wire wheels and then there are wire wheels. Bead blasting might be quick; I don't have the equipment at hand. Sometimes a popsicle stick will work, if the nasty chemicals have done their work well. Sometimes it goes quickly, sometimes not. Think of it as a meditation.

Posted: **Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:06 am**

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