Yamaha TRX850 Enthusiasts Forum

I need an alternator cover gasket, any ideas where I could get one? would normally use wemoto but their website seems to have gone down indefinitely, i haven't been able to get on it for weeks.

Greg

if you can get a bit of gasket paper you can do it the old school way and make it your self.

two ways

one is a bit of bearing blue and make a stamp out o the cover and then cut it out.

the other way is a small tapping hammer. place the paper on the surface then carefully use the hammer to cut the gasket on the sharp edge of the case.
The old man is a ex army mechanic, they use that technique when out in the feild when they cant get the gaskets needed. i have used it a few times and with a bit of practice it works real well.

Think i'm going to have to do that, can only seem to find complete sets - I only want 1!

Well - you could sell the spare(s) on here to someone else who doesn't want to buy a complete set

do yamaha not do one ?? i can most stuff in two day tops

Jak wrote:Well - you could sell the spare(s) on here to someone else who doesn't want to buy a complete set

that would mean having £90 to buy a set though

I'll ring keys tomorrow and see if I can get them individually

I'm with brockzilla on this, you can get a sheet of gasket paper from any good engineering supply shop for a couple of quid and it'll probably last for years.
I use it for everything except head gaskets.

0.8 or 1mm though, choices choices

I don't have a vernier caliper (yet) or I'd go and measure my self

Don't waste your time trying to make one, the part number is as follows:

3VD-15451-00 GASKET, CRANKCASE COVER 1 £4.57 from Flitwick's when I last bought one.

cheers for that, bought one from fowlers this am, cost me nearly a tenner all in