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New OEM head gasket arrived - BENT ! please look at pics - keep or return ?

exdirtbiker

exdirtbiker

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should I get upset, or will the gasket be "fine" once the head bolts are tight?
it even has a wiggle in front of the cam tunnel.
and as I post this I see that the front / middle bolt holes have been tweeked a little - looks like the layers got pulled apart.







 
No worry. That's a MLS head gasket made of very thin layers of steel. It will flatten out under torque.

BTW, the Kawasaki guys fill up the square O-ring groove with RTV on gaskets that cover the groove. Not sure if it's necessary but couldn't hurt (I think).
 
Don't forget to use anti seize on the head nuts and torque them again after some break in miles.
 
Bought some o-rings from Partszilla on Wed.
They sent me an email on Friday :" we plan to ship your parts on monday." ... What the BLEEP ??? 5 days to get them into the mail ? NEVER AGAIN !
 
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exdirtbiker said:
Bought some o-rings from Partszilla on Wed.
They sent me an email on Friday :" we plan to ship your parts on monday." ... What the BLEEP ??? 5 days to get them in the mail ? NEVER AGAIN !
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Oh stop it, be glad you could even get them, besides that's fairly normal time from a dealer. I've had to wait up to 3 sometimes 4 weeks to get parts I needed.
 
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exdirtbiker said:
Bought some o-rings from Partszilla on Wed.
They sent me an email on Friday :" we plan to ship your parts on monday." ... What the BLEEP ??? 5 days to get them in the mail ? NEVER AGAIN !
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Remember, Partzilla is not a warehouse. They source their parts from warehouses, and pull together your order to be shipped out together as one unit. This would take a couple of days to put together an order.

As Mr Bill says, sometimes it take me a month to get parts in going through my local dealer.
 
Weird, i use partzilla for a lot of my stuff and i usually get it in 3-4 days, and they are on the other side of the country
 
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