Valve Cover Gasket

[birdy]

I'm having a hard time locating a good online source for a replacement valve cover gasket (2H7-11193-00-00) for my 79F.

partsnmore.com have them back ordered.

any ideas?

Thanks!

[MrOzz]

Bike Bandit has them. Not cheap at $35.00

[psycoreefer]

go to napa, buy a sheet of gasket material for a couple bucks. Carefully trace your old gasket on the new sheet and then cut it out. Use a single hole punch (you'll find them in the "office" section at walmart or whatever) to punch the holes for the bolts. Total cost if you have to buy scissors and a hole punch will be less then 35 dollars.

[XS1100 Newbie]

I would think that the "Right Stuff" would work as well. That is what i have planned on the next removal. I don't think there is a clearance problem.

[bikerphil]

$22 here....

http://www.yamahaaccy.com/parts.aspx

[Ivan]

[motoman]

OEM is $35. Just got one and the cam end plugs a couple months ago when I had the valves adjusted.

[XSokieSPECIAL]

THIS IS WHERE i got mine......

http://www.crc2onlinecatalog.com/val...er_gaskets.htm

$10 + SHIPPING

[mxmikie]

http://www.benefiscal.co.uk/forum/in...43573#msg43573

[DGXSER]

There is a link somewhere to the Benefiscal UK site that has a printable full size diagram of just about every gasket on an XS11. You can use that to print out a gasket and cut one form gasket material. I have done it, and it worked. However, I have also used black RTV silicone for the gasket and it worked just as well, same would go for the Right Stuff shown above. IMO, I am sold on the RTV gasket for this one, and the shift fork cover.

[mxmikie]

i like hylomar......http://www.hylomar-usa.com/_resource.../products.html

[Ivan]

1 tube of ultra gray silicone is about $4 and will make probably 20 valve cover gaskets.

If you want authenticity, get some yamabond 4, the runny stuff and use it. Its used between case halves from the factory and works extremely well on anything but the head gasket. Additionally, silicone and like products are not porous like paper and will not leak oil through the gasket.

Before anyone says "It'll get in your oil galleys and plug up the engine and starve it for oil when the beads break off inside.", think about it. Those would have to make it through the pump screen, the gears in the pump (where they would be eviscerated to nothing) through the oil filter and somehow make ith through the oiling groove in the crank or cam and all the cockeyed galleys in the transmission.

It always amazes me that people will shut down their scoot for weeks waiting on an overpriced die cut piece of paper when they could be riding, for less money to boot. Red has ALL its gaskets except for the head gasket made with yamabond and it's run that way for more than 10K miles.

[XSokieSPECIAL]

So Ivan......

...your saying Red is glued together?

Guess you didn't get enough glue on that crank seal huh.

[Ivan]

Yeah, Red is glued together. Silicone has good enough tensile strength, I'd bet if all the surfaces were clean on assembly the bolts could be removed from the pan after a day's cure time and it would stay. It's pretty tenacious in tensile strenght.

Which brings me to another tip...

The shear strength of silicone sucks. So if a part is sticking too much to pull it loose, don't wedge a screwdriver in and mar the surfaces, just tap on the side with a soft hammer. It will break loose pretty easy. Of course it doesn't help when dowel pins are used.

That crank seal is still pissing me off. But I saved ti for you. You can use all the glue you want on it.

[birdy]

Thanks for all the responses! I think I'll order one. I don't like putting silicon on anything that might come in contact with gasoline. And I'm too lazy to cut one out.