GS 1000 gaskets

[Big T]

Suzuki has discontinued head and base gaskets for chain drive 1000s
What are you using?
I see Cometic makes a 73.5 mm bored head gasket

I have a 1085 kit

 

[oldGSfan]

I used a Cometic on my stock bore GS1000 and it's doing just fine.

 

[bitzz]

Wiseco makes a 73.5mm composite head gasket
I have used Cometic copper for years without issue.

 

[Agemax]

Cometic on my 1085 as well, better than OEM in my opinion.

 

[Big T]

Yeah, the Cometic is what came in the 1085 kit, so that's a no brainer
How about the base gasket? I see Z1 has one, no manufacturer name

 

[Agemax]

Yeah, the Cometic is what came in the 1085 kit, so that's a no brainer
How about the base gasket? I see Z1 has one, no manufacturer name

Cometic make base gaskets for the Gs1000 as well.

 

[Big T]

They're only showing head gaskets on their website

 

[Agemax]

https://www.suzukiperformancespares.co.uk/product/cometic-gs1000-e-s-base-gasket/7073/

in stock at a UK cometic supplier, should be available your part of the world.

 

[Big T]

Not in stock, no longer made.
I had my parts guy check
There's one on EBay, here in the USA

 

[Nessism]

Just my opinion but I'd buy OEM Suzuki gaskets. There are 1100G head gaskets available on ebay for a fair price, and base gaskets for the 1000 too.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/363404406903?epid=1024671934&hash=item549c973077:g:h1EAAOSwltRgpnOl

 

[joe penoso]

But if there are no O.E.M. you must buy aftermarket
joepenoso

 

[Big T]

Just my opinion but I'd buy OEM Suzuki gaskets. There are 1100G head gaskets available on ebay for a fair price, and base gaskets for the 1000 too.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/363404406903?epid=1024671934&hash=item549c973077:g:h1EAAOSwltRgpnOl

Ed,

I ebayed the Suzuki base gasket part number, and got nothing

 

[Nessism]

Here is one...https://www.ebay.com/itm/202966398793?hash=item2f41bd7749:g:TKUAAOSwmcRel1Gx

I'm not sure what the H17 means on the PN. If you remove that and search ebay there are a number of others.

 

[Big T]

Thanks Ed, I bought that base gasket

I'll get the rest of my gaskets from my local dealer

 

[tatu]

Who would'v thought that stuff like gaskets would become obsolete?
A few years back I was asked to put together a list of stuff that would be submitted for a remanufacturing program, nothing seems to have come of that but the vintage parts program came as a spin off.
Nowhere would I have thought that stuff like gaskets would be discontinued. Head gaskets have always been eye wateringly expensive, the composite ones were discontinued in favor of MLS and were still hella expensive...

 

[Chuck78]

Partzilla still shows the superseded MLS head gaskets available for 850/1000/1100G models. This is what I run for all my bigger GS 8v engines (big bore 750 & 1000).

Quite spendy though at $123 + shipping...

The base gasket IS showing as no longer available, what the heck Suzuki?!?!

At least Cometic can custom make any paper gaskets to order, & very quickly... Composite head gaskets as well,but I much prefer the MLS head gaskets.
Athena made an MLS gasket for the 1000/1100 that looks nice, I have one or 2 here, from Nick @ Suzuki Performance Spares.

 

[Chuck78]

Suzuki REALLY %^$*@%^$ed me off early this year by completely discontinuing listings for the Suzuki PE 2-stroke enduros and selling off their entire stock of plastic bodywork and other NOS warehoused parts to a private club in the UK...
Really ridiculous considering so many of the parts were shared with the air cooled RM125 & 250 of the day (still listed), and nut/bolt/bearing/seal/spring/etc parts shared with hundreds of various Suzuki models... So why not just keep the PE listings up with the common cross reference parts?!? Nope, only Bike Bandit and CSMNL still list the PE series. Major bummer.

 

[Chuck78]

Is there any channel we can complain to about Suzuki dropping support for these midels slowly? The GS were more mass produced than the PE pure enduro series, but are still getting simple parts like paper gaskets phased out... Darn Covid!!!!
I guess this means we're all getting old as well!

 

[Chuck78]

Athena MLS head gaskets:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/254941040694

Edit - you can actually get the whole 1100G gasket set for less than that shipped,the head gaskets there individually are coming from Germany, so $$ shipping.

 

[GregT]

Athena MLS head gaskets:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/254941040694

Edit - you can actually get the whole 1100G gasket set for less than that shipped,the head gaskets there individually are coming from Germany, so $$ shipping.

Despite there being quite a lot of anti -Athena feeling on here, they seem to be the only gasket makers prepared to make for obsolete brands and models. For most of the older Italian brands - eg Benelli, laverda - they are now and have been for some years the only game in town. With very few reported problems too.

I've used them on 8V and 16V Suzukis as well as Ducati, Benelli and laverdas with NO problems - incl race engines.