[Cgbownut]

Got top end pulled and need to clean up old gasket. Before i ship to machine shop.
Have 2 question? 1. What is best way to clean this off? 2. I noticed this metal point sticking out on underside of head. But can not find it mentioned or shown in manual. It is only on one side. Is this supposed to be there?

 

[alloutdoors]

You could soak it in diesel for a while and then brush everything off later.

 

[mac102004]

Die grinder with scotch brite pad is what I use. Don’t know about the point, is it a part of a broken bolt or something ???


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[alloutdoors]

Like Mac, I thought that looked like a bolt, specifically a stud bolt snapped off and sure hope not for you....

 

[Cgbownut]

It is not in one of two 6mm bolt holes. It is in one of the holes closer to the outer edge.

 

[Cgbownut]

If it helps, this is a 2007. TRX400FA Honda Rancher

 

[XplicitRacing6]

I made this cool scraper... It's a screwdriver handle with the head of a scraper blade, it works amazing. It always you to get more leverage and scrape harder. I'll send you a pic when I get home from work..

 

[SlammedRanger]

I made this cool scraper... It's a screwdriver handle with the head of a scraper blade, it works amazing. It always you to get more leverage and scrape harder. I'll send you a pic when I get home from work..

They make exactly what your talking about its called a gasket scraper and you can get them at autozone or any autoparts store for 10 bucks. They lock a straight razor blade in the end and it has a handle like a screw driver that unscrews and holds extra blades. I have had mine for almost 10 years and its never let me down. I thinks its made by oem?

 

[XplicitRacing6]

Are you serious??? I thought I was so clever making this...... Well thanks @SlammedRanger for ruining the fun... lol im just kidding...

 

[SlammedRanger]

Hahaha no worries! Glad i could help!

 

[SlammedRanger]

Here is the exact one i have.

 

[XplicitRacing6]

Wow... I feel so stupid... haha...
Edit: We will see whos scraper is better my homemade one or the OEM one hehe @SlammedRanger

 

[SlammedRanger]

Mine is 10 years of hard use and counting lol. I first got it when i was rebuilding my first truck engine. Scraping head gasket surfaces on a v8 sucks! Probably spent 2 hours with a normal scraper and then went to just a razor blade in my fingers and thought there has to be another way. Looked it up and boom quick trip to advance auto and i was done an hour later. Had to of saved me 3 hours or more through the whole process.

 

[fishfiles]

like I was saying G+H charges $20 to remove that gasket , and what is so weird , I have had a couple that were so easy to get off and then had many that where so hard , chipping off a piece at a time ----- I have a cool tool , but you have to be carefull on aluminum , it is a air power scraper , it makes short work of that gasket , but you have to keep the angle right or you can gouge up the surface

 

[Cgbownut]

Well, solved the metal point mystery. Turns out the previous owner poured some kind of liquid bond down the 6x110 bolt hole in order to hide that they stripped out the threads and that stuff filled the oil path. Got all that cleaned out, but now it looks like I am going to need a new cylinder anyway as the sleeve o ring is split.