Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original
the best gasketts for the k5
BDI:
--- Quote from: cbxracer30 on March 23, 2009, 09:17:19 AM ---Kawasaki factory part# 11060-1874 that is the rubber coated metal gasket that doesn't blowout .
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Just like the cometic
kaw rider:
The rubber coated base gasket are nice for kawasaki poor maching of gasket surfaces.
martinfan30:
--- Quote from: stewart on March 23, 2009, 08:33:03 AM ---do not knurl the surfaces...i ve seen three out off the last 30 sets of comtic base gaskets that have one hole off
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Is this an issue?
DoldGuy:
I have not seen a Cometic Base Gasket Like that.?.? I will pull a kit apart to confirm. The Base Gasket that Kaw Rider & CBX are refering to are (in my opinion) are FAR superior to any Athena, Cometic, etc Base Gasket. I have blown out 2 Cometic and 1 Athena base gasket, before finally replacing with OEM Kawasaki as mentioned above (it will NOT blowout as CBX mentioned, it is steel).
BDI:
Cometic will make you gaskets out of what ever you wish. A lot of their economy kits come with paper or at least they used too. I order their gaskets individually and out of the material of my choice. They offer rubber coated aluminum gaskets that are the exact same as the stock kawi ones. Infact cometic has been making these gaskets long before kawi ever used them as an OEM part. I'm sure someone at kawi saw how well these gaskets out performed everything else. I have been using them since 98 but the gaskets I have on my bike right now are made from the same thing cometic makes their head gaskets out of and they are steel not aluminum.
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