<VV> (VV) GEN/FAN & electrical -Arjay Morgan

[alan WESSON]

I managed to trash an engine in my Lancia Appia last year by using a piece
of cardboard to make a gasket (not because I was cheap but because they take
2 weeks to get from Italy and we needed it quicker than that!).

On my Lancia Appia the engine is in three parts - crankcase, which contains
the crank; block, which contains the cylinders; and finally the head.

Between the crankcase and the block there is a cardboard gasket, and that's
the one we couldn't get. We therefore went to our local FLAPS for some
gasket paper and made one (a cornflake box would have been better!).

This year the engine went onto one cylinder, and on stripping it we found it
had broken rings in the other three.

The reason? Our gasket paper had been thinner than the original (as I said,
a cornflake box would have been O.K!) and this meant that the tops of the
pistons came up half a millimetre above the top of the block (we hadn't even
noticed). That was enough to cause them to contact the valves (the engine is
a hemi, and the valves come right done to the tops of the pistons). This
broke the rings as described above.

Since then I have never bitched about the prices OE gasket sellers like Lon
sell.

Up and at 'em, Lon...

Cheers

Alan



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "corvairs" <lonwall@corvairunderground.com>
To: "Bill Hubbell" <whubbell@umich.edu>
Cc: "Arjay Morgan" <n3lkz@yahoo.com>; "Virtual Vairs"
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Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> (VV) GEN/FAN & electrical -Arjay Morgan


> Oh come on now Bill..........Wish I had known that. Cereal box carboard
> is way cheaper than the gasket materials we use. If you're going to make
> your own gasket go see your Hank - equivalant rep at the local auto
> pharts store where you  can buy proper gasket material on a sheet and
> cut from that -  So-called "gasket-maker" in a tube might work but I
> prefer to use it with a gasket.  Cereal box cardboard? maybe from a box
> of Golden Frosty O rings......... Lon
>
> www.corvairunderground.com
>
> Bill Hubbell wrote:
>
> >You can make your own gasket out of cereal box cardboard and it will work
> >just as well as anything the vendors sell.
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