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kawish:
hi, today i just receive my new wiseco piston that i have ordered.
but for the gasket, i see wiseco was making steel gasket kit for the top end, moose was making paper gasket kit with a fiber head gasket........which one will be better, steel or paper??? or maybe i could just go with kawa gasket?
is there someone who have ever tried one of the two above(wiseco.moose)????

thank you

Hillclimb#42:
 Fresh top end? Sweet. I used the steel, and make sure you replace wrist pin and wrist pin bearring. I got the top end gasket/piston kit from motosport, and ordered bearring and pin. Wiseco has their stuff really figured out. If you have stock piston, take a second to compare them during rebuild. You'll see a big difference.

doordie:

--- Quote from: kawish on July 08, 2007, 03:08:59 PM ---hi, today i just receive my new wiseco piston that i have ordered.
but for the gasket, i see wiseco was making steel gasket kit for the top end, moose was making paper gasket kit with a fiber head gasket........which one will be better, steel or paper??? or maybe i could just go with kawa gasket?
is there someone who have ever tried one of the two above(wiseco.moose)????

thank you

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Mesure gap between piston and head at edge(called squishgap,and not below 1.5mm) and choose witch one nerest in thickness.I prefer the stiffer ones (think is aluminium,not steel,black colour anyway). it?s 0,5mm thick :wink:
And for headgasket use either one look at pic how a aluminum headgasket looks like. :wink:
(1mm is stock and 0,2mm/0,4mm is option)

do.or.die

kawish:
thank you for the answer! :-)

don46:
The 1989 500 used the thicker fiber gasket stock, as an option the thin gasket could be used. in 1990, I think, kawi went to the thin gasket stock.

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