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gs450 bearing color codes - My Suzi has guts

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Thanks for the photos Pete!
After careful measuring I have decided to use the existing bearings and put the engine back together with new seals and gaskets.
What are the best sealers to use on the cases, head gasket ...?
I have a factory head gasket and a full set of cheapo gaskets.
 
No probs mate, and yes 100% +1 on Ed's comment on base gasket and O rings! Genuine base gaskets are cheap, O rings are worth it.

I tried an Athena after market set but used a genuine base gasket... head gasket had to get replace at somewhere around 20K km's as it developed a weep and nearly blew while out on a ride, it had turned brittle and hard in that time. The various other gaskets have all been replaced over time also, all went brittle and hard. The valve cover gasket weeped from the time it was installed to the time it got replaced with a genuine one during the first service, and nothing would stop it. The genuine gasket didn't weep at all.
 
My bike never weeped but,
You guys are making me weep!

What do I use between the lower cases ?
 
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