MOPED ARMY

I doubled up gaskets between the spacer and the cylinder and it's still leaking. Torque down to about 9 ft lb. What I think is happening but I'm not sure is that if you look at the picture there's a little area that's recessed and when I put the spacer on it's sitting on the upper edge so it's not recessed. But at the same time when I doubled up the gaskets it seemed like the gasket filled that space. I'm not sure what to do here

Yea it is, but it looks like doubled up gasket is filling that gap. I'm going to walk away from this for now because it's frustrating but I'll get back to it in the morning and double check. Plus I don't have any good lighting so pictures are going to come out like crap right now. I'll post some pictures tomorrow

Cut the case down where it's hitting or get some thicc gasket paper.

Gaskets will compress too, so even if it works new, they may compress over time and cause issues as well.

I sure wouldn't worry about grinding some off the fins to make it all work .

After I put the gasket on that I cut, seems like air is making it all the way to the cylinder bolts but now I got a leak in the cylinder bolt. Here's a video.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/D3UM4wSP5Ak7dJG29

I’ve never seen an application (motor wise)where double gasket is the answer

Usually that means you’ve put one too many on accidentally or your mating surfaces are not making proper contact.

Maybe that’s not the case here but typically you never want to double gasket. The result is usually the seal blowing out (and double gasket on an oil filter on your car the blowout leads to engine seize just for reference)

How about I'll open as many posts as I want. And you mind your business how do you like that

The “one post” comment wasn’t an attack. It’s just moped army etiquette to open one thread per topic/sale.

Different posts for different topics, I honestly don’t think it was an attack, just standard procedure.

Unfortunately as much traffic as we have there isn’t always enough people on to answer questions in a quick timely manner (maybe the Facebook group may have faster responses?), or the people who may know the answer haven’t logged in in a while.

Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like your question has a clear cut answer so it may take some time

Yea it's a little frustrating because I have a post open and I get absolutely no response or any input. On top of that who says I don't have a flat file and what am I supposed to file down? Then you look at these post that are so dumb and they get a bunch of responses. There's a post about cryptocurrency and it gets more responses than a regular question that people need help with. Maybe I should put a word like braaap in the title. That should catch the attention of herd minded people. Beeeeehhh beeeeehhh. (edited)

I was just thinking that. I have a can of that spray but it's not spraying right. What about if I use permatex. I have a whole bottle of that too

Meant to say it's at 4.8 20 minutes later

Got this kit from treats. Wish they would tell you this in the description. Here's a pic of the spacer with the cylinder in and no gaskets. And with gasket . The spacing looks pretty even when I get the gasket on. If you guys really think I need to file that down I'll take it to the machine shop. See what he says. The only problem is when I took the cylinder in, It took him about 3 weeks. I called him after The first week, he said he was going to start on it in a few days I waited two more weeks and he never called me even though he had my number. Then I finally called him The third week and he told me it was ready never called me to tell me it was ready. It's like the 2022 effect Where even when you pay somebody to do something it's still a pain in the ass afterwards. When he gave me everything he had it together with no bolts. Soon as I put the bolts on it didn't line up I had to make the holes bigger on the cylinder to get enough play for it to line up

This is what everyone is talking about.

Get rid of that gap by grinding down the spacer or the cases.

Or run a thick enough gasket to where it doesn't make contact.

I put the spacer up against a flat metal door which is pretty even and flat . I didn't see any clear uneven surfaces. I also ran it on some 600 grit up against the same surface in a X pattern To me it looks like the gasket fills everything in. My first step when I saw the leak was to try and grind the spacer down. I used a bit on a Dremel and I don't like the way it was coming out. That's when I moved on to a different gasket which seems like it works. I just don't have the skills to precisely machine stuff down. I do have a bunch of files and sandpaper ,all types of stuff that would probably work . That's just one of my weak points I can't do things precisely because my patience is really low. I'm going to try to move forward the way it is. I'll get everything together the best I can with no leaks. Get it started. Hopefully it's still warm enough where I could ride around for a few hours but it's getting colder out by the day. Still have a bit of work before everything is ready to run. I'm going to keep this in mind and If I absolutely have to I will get that spacer fixed. (edited)