The Daily Yardman Thread

BlazNT said:

Xmark update:

Almost everything has been put back together till I started looking for the carb to intake manifold gasket. Nowhere to be found. I looked everywhere. I decided to check to see if I even ordered one. Well, guess what? This dumb arse forgot to order one. No biggie I will just order one and all will be great. $6.70 and $19.99 shipping. No no no. Wait I have gasket material I can make my own. This is how I did it for those of you that do not know how to make your own. A picture will be attached.

1. Find the flat surface you want to copy. My carb had the best one of the 2 so I chose it.
2. Get a piece of paper and an old crayon. I like the crayon over pencil any day. Remove the outside paper of crayon.
3. Put paper flat on service you chose in step 1
4. Take the crayon and lay it long ways and move back and forth until you get all the detail of part you are making the gasket for.
5. Cut outside of paper off. Cut holes out of paper
6. Lay paper on gasket material and draw around the paper to make outside and holes show on gasket material.
7. Cut out gasket material just like paper.

You now have a gasket better than OEM

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Pumper54 said:

Pretty slick trick, I have seen where you take a light ball peen hammer and tap the edges of the piece to make the cut line. BUT the most important thing I see in your picture is that you have COOKIES
Tom

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Pumper54 said:

Pretty slick trick, I have seen where you take a light ball peen hammer and tap the edges of the piece to make the cut line. BUT the most important thing I see in your picture is that you have COOKIES
Tom

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Pumper54 said:

Pretty slick trick, I have seen where you take a light ball peen hammer and tap the edges of the piece to make the cut line. BUT the most important thing I see in your picture is that you have COOKIES
Tom

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Boobala said:

Those cookies keep his young-un close by, so he can keep an eye on him, while he's workin on things, SMART MOVE !! ..:thumbsup: ..:laughing:

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BlazNT said:

Xmark update:

Almost everything has been put back together till I started looking for the carb to intake manifold gasket. Nowhere to be found. I looked everywhere. I decided to check to see if I even ordered one. Well, guess what? This dumb arse forgot to order one. No biggie I will just order one and all will be great. $6.70 and $19.99 shipping. No no no. Wait I have gasket material I can make my own. This is how I did it for those of you that do not know how to make your own. A picture will be attached.

1. Find the flat surface you want to copy. My carb had the best one of the 2 so I chose it.
2. Get a piece of paper and an old crayon. I like the crayon over pencil any day. Remove the outside paper of crayon.
3. Put paper flat on service you chose in step 1
4. Take the crayon and lay it long ways and move back and forth until you get all the detail of part you are making the gasket for.
5. Cut outside of paper off. Cut holes out of paper
6. Lay paper on gasket material and draw around the paper to make outside and holes show on gasket material.
7. Cut out gasket material just like paper.

You now have a gasket better than OEM

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