Restoration Rant

[Mike K]

I use permatex No. 3 ...you get quite fast at hole punching after a while . I once saw a VW beetle with silastic repair in the fuel tank.. the owner had stripped down the caby 3-4 times , but small bits of the stuff kept on clogging the carby up.

The neighbour here uses liquid nails, the builders adhesive , for many applications..he restores X series Falcons from XK to XF . He's a bush mechanic, but very clever too.

BTW does anyone know where to buy sheets of the special diaphram rubber used in carburettors ... Like Phil, I print out the shape and use it as a template . They ask silly prices ( $20 ) for a 5 cent bit of rubber , and I'd like to make my own. eg, the Land Rover Solex carby has 2 of them

Mike

[hrpearce]

Why print, cut and punch gaskets when all you have to do is place a piece of gasket paper oer the part tap around the edges with a small ball pein hammr and tap the holes with the ball end. I've cut gskets as small as the bowl on a zeneth up draft carby on a Jap motor sucksfully this way.

[cletrac (RIP)]

I've tried numerous gasket silicones and one brand The Right Stuff is way better than any others I've used. It's black and expensive and comes in a caulking type tube. You have to be careful with how much you use but oil leaks just don't happen.
I've taken engines apart where somebody went overboard with RV sealant and the oil pump pickup was half plugged with the stuff.