So I bought my bike used 2 years ago. About a week into having it, I noticed an oil leak from the stator cover gasket. So picked one up and got to putting it on.

As I was cleaning off the old gasket material, I noticed some silicon... picking away at it... to my suprise, a huge 2" x 1" piece of the lower ENGINE BLOCK came off in my hand. Apparently the previous owner broke it off , siliconed it back on, and replaced the stator just in time to sell it to me.

So, tried JB weld... Honda bond, RTV silicone etc... but had no success of getting any of that to work... So finally I took my bike to an AMA racer who happened to be a welder. Cleaned the area real good, screwed the stator in place without the gasket, put the piece on and tacked it... pulled the stator off, and finished the weld job. (the broken off piece happened to be centered on a screw which was nice.)

Anyways, long story short, I've had this irritating slow oil drip leak from my stator for 2 years... and I'm sick of it. I've tried fixing it so many times, I've literally gone through atleast 8 gaskets trying to get it to stop leaking... with and without various types of silicone... even tried to double up the gasket.

Even though I can't see it, aparently when we filed the welds back flush, they are not perfectly mated to the stator cover, and those 1 micron thick stock gaskets just won't seal the gap.

HERE'S MY SUPER DUPER STATOR GASKET AWESOME SOLUTION!!!

... I think... lol

So, I picked up some High tempature rubber material resistant to oil, and corrosive materials. 3 times thicker than a stock paper gasket. Cost me like 10 bucks for a 3' sheet. Can handle tempatures to 220 degrees feirenheit without any distortion or breakdown of the material. I also picked up yet another stock gasket for measuring...

Here were my steps:
Taped a large piece of the rubber to a board on all edges.
Then taped the stock gasket on top of the rubber on all outer edges
Made an outline of the gasket with a pen. Also outlining the holes.
Then taped the gasket on the inner edges, and removed outer tape.
Outlined the outer part of the gasket.
Removed the tape and gasket.
Used a utility razor blade to cut out the inner edge of the rubber gasket shape.
Then cut the outer part of the gasket out with the razor.
Used a hole puncher to cut out the holes where the screws go.
Fed my cats.

So, that was my tactic for making a new stator cover gasket out of rubber, and hopefully once and for all fixing my frigging oil leak.

Soon as my nephew gets home from work I'm gunna put his *** back to work helping me put the rubber one on lol.

Here's Pics...

Let me know what you think of my idea for fixing a 2 year leak!

- Pixel -


















... And if this thread actually posts with all these pics on the first time... I'll eat the rubber punch outs lol...

- Pixel -

(Ctrl A... Ctrl C.... just incase lol.)

 

Looks great, you should get a copyright and market those. It should also be re-usable because of the thickness unless it gets torn. It would suck to see rubber gaskets for sale in a year for $50 each and not get a slice off the top.

 

Click here to check see the results!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1xqm...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id3ni...eature=related

- Epic Pixel -