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GS head gasket installation?

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streetfighters

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O.K., I've finally got a question! Comments are greatly appreciated.
I've been debating this for awhile and as I'm about to install the head back onto my 1150ES lump, I was wondering something. I am using the standard headgasket, not a copper gasket. Engine compression is normal, just an 1168 kit, no milled head.
Should I just install it dry ( no super adhesive glop ) or use some sort of gasket goo ( copperkote, yamabond, etc.). The engine currently installed in my bike is an early 1981 GS1100E and I have been experiencing oil leakage from the camchain tunnel area in front of the engine. Thanks in advance for your input.
streetfighters
 
streetfighters said:
O.K., I've finally got a question! Comments are greatly appreciated.
I've been debating this for awhile and as I'm about to install the head back onto my 1150ES lump, I was wondering something. I am using the standard headgasket, not a copper gasket. Engine compression is normal, just an 1168 kit, no milled head.
Should I just install it dry ( no super adhesive glop ) or use some sort of gasket goo ( copperkote, yamabond, etc.). The engine currently installed in my bike is an early 1981 GS1100E and I have been experiencing oil leakage from the camchain tunnel area in front of the engine. Thanks in advance for your input.
streetfighters
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There is no Suzuki factory head gasket for an 1168 kit. What are you trying to use a 1150 head gasket?

If it was me I would be using a Cometic composite gasket made for the 1166 with a light spray of coppercoat on both head and base gasket.

Do not use the Cometic MLS gaskets for the 1166 they are defective tooling and are guaranteed to leak in the first 30 seconds of running.

MOST PEOPLE SELLING THESE WILL NOT TELL YOU THAT BECUASE THEN YOU WOULD NOT BUY ONE. :mad:

Hey is BigJay around?
 
What about factory bore and suzuki head gasket should you spray or put anything on it? Ive heard of people with race engine putting on something on base and head gaskets???? and that its hard to get them apart nezt time?
 
Thanks guys. I get the drift, no sealant. I hate that stuff anyway. Also, yeah, I know these is no 1168cc "Factory Suzuki" gasket. What I stated was that I was using a "standard" gasket, not a copper gasket. I guess I get the head on the old scoot.
streetfighters
 
When i installed the wiseco supplied gasket (mls, brand ??cometic) on my bored out 750, I put a little bit of sealer around the oil passages on the head and base gasket. NO leaks at all, and this is the high pressure plain bearing 750.
 
streetfighters said:
O.K., I've finally got a question! Comments are greatly appreciated.
I've been debating this for awhile and as I'm about to install the head back onto my 1150ES lump, I was wondering something. I am using the standard headgasket, not a copper gasket. Engine compression is normal, just an 1168 kit, no milled head.
Should I just install it dry ( no super adhesive glop ) or use some sort of gasket goo ( copperkote, yamabond, etc.). The engine currently installed in my bike is an early 1981 GS1100E and I have been experiencing oil leakage from the camchain tunnel area in front of the engine. Thanks in advance for your input.
streetfighters
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Could the oil leakage in the camchain tunnel be from bad o-rings on the #1 and #3 head nuts(front two in the center)
 
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