scooterspal Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 (edited) After spending almost 2 weeks trying to clean the last few remaining remnants of my old head gasket (1986 TLR200) and after having tried every chemical I could lay my hands on... all with no luck whatsoever... I finally hit on something that worked. Actually, it was staring me in the face every time I washed my hands My so simple solution was to use a pumice block. The kind ladies use to remove callouses from the soles of their feet. Mine happened to have a stiff brush on the top and I bought it not for the pumice but for that brush to clean my finger nails. Here's what I did. I wet the top of the head with water and then sprinkled baking soda all over. I soaked the pumice block in water and then dipped that in the baking soda. Using small circular movements I went to work on the gasket material that was baked into the head. It came off in no time and with no hard rubbing. It just wiped off. I followed that up with a wet cloth rubbed on a bar of Lava soap (also containing pumice) and that was that. Washed it off and oiled up the cylinder and it's now waiting to be honed. Here is a shot of my cleaned head. Edited August 2, 2010 by scooterspal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 What's wrong with using a gasket scraper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooterspal Posted August 2, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 (edited) What's wrong with using a gasket scraper? There was nothing left to scrape. More like a heavy dark brown stain than material you could get a blade under. Edited August 2, 2010 by scooterspal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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