Smorg
XS650 Enthusiast
I'm a new owner but not inept on working on 80's bikes.. I had never made a gasket before however. I heard a lot of different ways to do it like using a hammer to tap on the gasket, I saw someone use a photocopier and that's what I was going to do. Unfortunately Walgreens is so effing fancy now you can't just make a copy it wants to turn it into a sized photograph. I didn't want to use the hammer so I just took a piece of paper Really 2 pieces of paper press them very hard against the bottom plate of the oil sunpump. I then cut out the paper in the form of the gasket. The paper is flimsy and I didn't want to use that to actually actually cut the gasket material. So. So I traced the paper onto on to some cardboard I got from the top of a shoebox. My rationale is next time I need a filter I'll have the stiff cardboard from the shoebox in a perfect template the template of what the gasket is all right already to just trace another one. Here's a photo. Oh I should add that i bought an exact knife to do the cutting and i bought a paper punch like what you would lose use for a loosely finder to and there to make the holes I'll post another picture after I've actually cut the Gasket.