Gaskets

Used a few of those in my time.

 

How much is the full deluxe kit please Plus VAT and could you possibly post ?

 

Well that’s me out then poor transporter driver this way it’s a mint post though I gotta say I have used this method since the late 70s as we didn’t have any money and you just could not source parts like you can these days used to smear oil over the surface and tap round the edges and push through the holes until you had the perfectly formed gasket then a good smear of Hylomar jobs a Goodun

 

Yep made loads of these in the past although can't remember if we could afford REAL cornflakes!!
As a poor apprentice I got to be a dab hand making gaskets with a small ball pein hammer.

 

Sometimes using the correct gasket is the only way......

Had a Honda H100 when I turned 17 and really should have bought a head gasket when it started leaking but didn't. A friend on a unrestricted DT125LC (21 bhp ) and I, went one weekend to the coast. Needless to say it got thrashed flat out both ways. After we split halfway home the engine died. Compression seemed lacking. Plug out and probing through the plug hole with a screwdriver struggled to find a piston
A seven and a half mile push down the old A1 got me to my grandparents house. Upon later inspection there was a neat 10mm or so hole straight through the crown . The weakened mixture had certainly challenged the aluminium.

 

The wonders of a 2 stroke Eldon.

Could you push one now for seven and a half miles

 

Probably not.
I was 17 and with no other option so just set off walking. A biker pulled up to offer a lift but I had no means of later collecting it so declined.
You'll like this bit... A through and through tight ar5e, sorry Yorkshireman
Took the piston to work, machined the hole out so it was truly round. Machined a suitable plug and tig welded it in. Rebuilt with old gasket that evening so only had to uses buses one day.
Sorry for hijack

 

Great little story,,,I don’t doubt that the seeds of being a Yorkshire man were well and truly sown even at that age