What's Your Trick For Removing Baked on Gaskets?
It's a royal pain. I'm replacing the Rocker Box Gaskets on wife's '93 FXDL and the bottom Rocker Box Gaskets have become one with the heads. Just curious what everyone uses. I'm not removing the heads so benching and using some rotary tool is out. Razor blade? Scraper? Heat Gun?
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MEK
Methyl-ethyl-ketone |
Goo-Gone
JB Blast (I think it's called) Let it soak in. then scrape it with a gasket remover blade. |
Originally Posted by davekp
(Post 21663737)
MEK
Methyl-ethyl-ketone |
Originally Posted by RANGER73
(Post 21663747)
Goo-Gone
JB Blast (I think it's called) Let it soak in. then scrape it with a gasket remover blade. |
Originally Posted by brakeless
(Post 21663752)
Can't find it. Maybe PB Blaster?
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Careful with MEK. It will lift your paint. Melt your screw driver handles and just about anything plastic
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Originally Posted by tdrglide
(Post 21666414)
Careful with MEK. It will lift your paint. Melt your screw driver handles and just about anything plastic
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Tricks... well, use a plastic scraper, not metal.
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Well I tried everything suggested plus a few tricks of my own. Spent close to two hours working on the front cylinder alone! It had a James brand gasket set on it and the bottom Rocker Box gasket was so baked on at the front above the exhaust port I thought I'd never get it off. I ended up using a small rotary brass wire wheel on my Dremel. Pure desparation at that point. I think that gasket set had been on there over 20 years. The rear cylinder had what appeared to be maybe an HD gasket set on it and lifted right off since it was one piece metal. I pulled both because I wanted to install Rock Out Rocker Shaft Lockers. That part was a breeze but as usual cleaning all the fasteners and mating parts took a lot of time.
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