Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original
the best gasketts for the k5
Johnniespeed:
I have no experience with after market gaskets, but I do use the OEM base and head gasket and usually rering about every 250 gallons of fuel through the bike. I have never had any leaks and I think I ride more than most people. I have no reason to try any other product, since the kawasaki part works perfect.
John
cbxracer30:
not sure which style gasket comes in the cometic topend kit now [fiber or metal] but they do make the rubber coated metal . It's rubber coated 10thousands spring steel part # B0036010S. That is my custom order # I've been have them special made for years along with big-bore head gaskets. I order them in packs of at least five not sure if they sell singles.
BDI:
The rubber coated steel is the same thing I'm running at the time. I went to them to set my deck height where I wanted it. The foam rubber coated aluminum ones they sell that are the same as what kawi now uses have a compressed thickness of 0.12". I agree that the ones that kawi have made for them work great but they are not a development of kawi, rather a development of the people who make the materials for making gaskets. These materials were used in other applications long before kawi started using them. It was companies like cometic who saw the benefit of these sweet new materials and started producing motorcycle gaskets out of them. Their are a few of us here who can't buy gaskets from kawi do to the nature of our engine building ideas so we have to be well educated on what gaskets work, who to get them from, and who will make you whatever you want. Cometic makes crap ass paper gaskets too, It's all about how much $$$ you want to spend.
stewart:
i like the c 7047 comitec head kit
gowen:
I always ran Cometic and loved it. I've used them since my old days of riding and have never had an issue with miss-stamps (except a few hanging tabs that I just poke out).
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