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Aftermarket valve cover gasket for 1981 GS1100E

Chuck

Chuck

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I ordered a valve cover gasket from gasketmax (the black gasket in the photo below) on ebay but it is .48mm thick while the OEM NOS gasket (I managed to find one) is 1.15mm thick. After reading about the problems with the tach gears and the Real silicone gasket I'm thinking I really need to find an aftermarket gasket that is the correct thickness as well as the correct fit/hole alignment when I adjust the valves again in the future. Does anyone know of an aftermarket gasket provider with the correct thickness for P/N 11173-49207-H17 (20 bolt pattern)?

gaskets by Chuck Jones, on Flickr

Here is the visual thickness comparison:

PXL_20230420_230140212 by Chuck Jones, on Flickr
 
Why do you want an aftermarket gasket, when OEM is only $22?
 
Planning ahead for when the NOS supply disappears. I am going to attempt to re-use the gasket I pulled off first using a thin layer of Permatex Ultra Black but if that doesn't work I'll use the OEM gasket I just got and hope to re-use that a few times.
 
Use two Gasketmax? Is that possible? With or without the TINIEST bit of goo between them?
 
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