Gasket Removal

Reply Subscribe

Thread Tools

Search this Thread

Oct 4, 2005 | 05:37 AM

#16

Crash687

Posting Guru

Joined: Mar 2004

Posts: 1,321

Likes: 2

From: MI

coat gasket with anti-sieze before you reassemble and it will not stick.

Oct 4, 2005 | 07:17 AM

#17

berkad

Posting Guru

Joined: Jun 2002

Posts: 1,097

Likes: 0

From: Home, at last!

Quote:

Originally Posted by 00BlueOvalRanger

I have used some stuff called Hancolite to remove gaskets. MEAN stuff. It has toulene (sp???) and some other 'lenes' in it.

It will eat a gasket in seconds. Gaskets turn into mush, literally.
(It will take paint off of a car in a matter of seconds, too.) Paint becomes a mass of crinkled crud. Flakes right off. Down to bare metal.

Stuff is hazardous. Can't get it anymore.

You can buy straight tolulene from Sherwin Williams. It is used as a paint thinner to give a pearl look.

Oct 4, 2005 | 10:34 AM

#18

Bdox

Fleet Owner

Joined: Sep 2005

Posts: 28,609

Likes: 18

From: Lake Tahoe, Nevada

Prevention is best of course. In the days before there were hundreds of gasket sealers on the market, mechanics used to coat paper type gaskets with light grease and let it soak in before installation. This caused the gasket to swell slightly so that it would conform to any irregularities in the mating surfaces. The grease also preserves the gasket so that is lasts longer and if you have to take it apart it never sticks.

Oct 4, 2005 | 10:48 AM

#19

GLR

FTE Legend

Joined: Sep 2003

Posts: 54,114

Likes: 2,448

From: NY and VA

Don't use a wire wheel if the engine is in the vehicle, at the dealership we had a rash of problems with pieces of wire getting into the oil pan through the valley and getting sucked up into the oil pump causing a seizure. Of course this was in the days when you did a valve job not just replacing the heads...

Oct 4, 2005 | 11:07 AM

#20

Fat Diesel

Logistics Pro

Joined: Aug 2005

Posts: 3,888

Likes: 180

From: Morgan Hill, CA

Good point GLR. You can also prepare carb gaskets with chap stick. You can also make a carb to intake gasket out of a Cheerios box in a pinch...

Oct 5, 2005 | 12:01 AM

#21

pcmenten

Posting Guru

Joined: Mar 2002

Posts: 2,070

Likes: 2

From: Boise, Idaho

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned paint stripper. I scrape as much as I can with a razor blade then hit it with paint stripper. Easy peasy.

Oct 7, 2005 | 09:32 PM

#22

mrxlh

Postmaster

Joined: Apr 2004

Posts: 2,654

Likes: 0

From: Bossier City, LA

Knotted wire bell brushes in a die grinder are hard to beat on any surface. It will eat aluminum if you dwell to long, but makes short work of ever the almost imposible to remove print o seal gaskets that HD uses as cylinder base gaskets.

Ryan