Float bowl gasket - options?

Motorcycling
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Short story, my float bowl gaskets have stretched (must have reacted to carb cleaner or something?)

Anyway, since they seem to be 22 quid each and I need 4, I am looking at my options.

Current best (?) idea is to use a liquid gasket, fill the ‘channel’ the ring style gasket sits in with a bead of it and wait for it to set a little before putting the bowls back on (otherwise I can see myself having half a bowl full of sealant just waiting to block the jets).

Can anyone recommend a liquid gasket that isn’t silicone based and doesn’t react to petrol? Or does anyone have any better solutions?

Cheers,
Alex.

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Found the seals elsewhere for 4 quid each…

…still would be interested in a petrol-proof sealant though.

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Well done:)

For future reference I’ve made them out of a bit of innertube before.

Place the floatbowl face down on the flattened rubber, tap it with a happer and that leaves an imprint of the shape for you to cut round. bang the screws through their holes to get the hole positions :wink:

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Would inner tube be thick enough? …and are you talking about cycle or motorbike inner tube (cause I’ve never seen a motorbike one and they may be thicker…

These are about 2mm thick I’d guess.

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Cant remember to be honest, was quite a while back when every bike had innertubes;)

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blaahgdfghf delete

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Stick in a Google for “petrol proof sealant”. Lots on offer.

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+1 :smiley:

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There’s petrol proof and there’s ‘petrol proof’. I’d rather have something that someone can say works rather than petrol pissing out of my carbs/**** gumming up my float bowls!

What about this then?

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_173175_langId_-1_categoryId_165691

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Interesting. “Resistant to most automotive fluids”. Does that include petrol?

(The site was so slow loading that I didn’t wait, so if it says that later, eventualy, ignore this post.)

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get some Hylomar Blue that **** is gd…:smiley: you can get it in texaco fuel stations car shops etc etc…

http://www.lawson-his.co.uk/scripts/details.php?cat=Hylomar%20Products&product=48893&utm_campaign=comparison&utm_medium=ncpc&utm_source=froogle

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I used to swear by Hylomar for most jointing jobs 40 years ago, so did Rolls Royce aero div then, just thought there should be something better out there by now.

I guesss this stuff is like Swarfega. Still good after all these years.

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tried and tested can’t go wrong:)