Milk carton exhaust gasket

[gdn]

Anyone tried this? I have a friend who made a head gasket out of milk carton and it worked good (this was for a small 4 cyl engine); i need a gasket to pass over the 3 week wait for a new one.
step one:drink milk
step two:cut gasket out of milk carton
step three:install and cut wood

 

[gdn]

anyone have any thoughts on this? if someone knows it will definitly NOT work, please please tell me before i waste precious hours

 

[NEK VT]

Hummm

Not sure about exhaust gasket... But I would beleive a head gasket since saws are not liquid.... It won't take long... give it a try... or just go to any auto parts store and get some gasket material... a sheet of that is dirt cheap... and I know it will work

 

[BobL]

I don't know about milk carton but I once sold a small (very beat up) Nissan sedan with a water pump gasket made out of a cornflake packet soaked in engine oil. Apparently it ran for about 500 miles before it gave up. The reason I know how long it ran for is that I sold it to the brother of a friend and I told him all about it before I sold it to him. He needed a car immediately and said he would sort it but he didn't bother.

 

[Lakeside53]

It will not work as an EXHAUST gasket - paper burns at 3-400F, and exhaust gases are 1400F.

Use the correct gasket material for exhaust, or put it on without one and use a liquid exhaust-rated gasket maker.

 

[huskydave]

I have used the inside of a cigarette pack for a head gasket when I was stuck on a snowmobile miles from nowhere but if you are not in a bad jam just buy some gasket paper for 2$ a sheet or better yet order in the right gasket. The exhaust gasket needs to be made of something other than paper for sure though just try to order one and save yourself having to redo the same job. I don't reuse gaskets they are cheap to make or order. To answer your question it will work I have done this in emergency situations I don't know how long it will seal as I have never ran an engine for more than a day with one on.

 

[ShoerFast]

Muffler - cylinder or you could use Permitex Hi-Temp and cross your fingers hoping that the OD of the flange is cool enough to hold the gasket material.

Header Gaskets will last for a while with Hi-Temp RTV, next to the ID it is always burnt, but still holds further out,,,,, and if it did burn out, it would maybe get you buy for your time-frame?

 

[spike60]

The price for an exhaust gasket for your 338XP is a whopping $2.49. A 372XP gasket goes up to $3.03. Why on earth would anyone want to explore making their own exhaust gaskets?

I guess if I was paying attention, I would have seen the 3 week wait issue! Do need some proper gasket material though to get you through. If it's a plastic bodied saw be careful of leaks that could burn through the crankcase.

 

[16:1mix]

I've used tag board (kinda like a cereal box) for head gaskets on small Briggs & Stratton engines just to get them running. It is amazing that they will last but for exhaust gasket material I'd have to say the other ideas the guys have would work better, esp the RTV idea.

 

[J.Walker]

Paper Gaskets

Pizza boxes have been put to use, till the beer runs out, Then its off to the parts store for the correct part and more beer.

 

[DOLMARatOs]

A very soft piece of aluminum or about 10 pieces of aluminum foil makes a servicable exhaust gasket.

Take a piece of thin aluminum (Menards, Home depot, etc) then cut it and drill out the holes. After that use a low sooty flame to soften the metal.

Copper is a permanent fix if you use Hi-Tack.

 

[Burvol]

Believe it or not, I picked up an ol' Husky Rancher at a garage sale for 5 BUCKS that did not run. I put a new ring in it, and when it came time for the cylinder gasket to go back on, it was toast, so I cut a custom gasket out of a heavy cereal box ( I believe it was some kind of museli) and gooped a little rtv on it, and it has been money ever since...Probably not protocol, but it worked on my little rancher. It turned into my 4 wheeling and camping saw...and I'm a die hard Stihl guy.

 

[fubar2]

Whatdaya think they make beer cans out of gasket material for?

 

[elmnut]

can you call another dealer?

 

[gdn]

Whatdaya think they make beer cans out of gasket material for?

believe it or not, this is the one i'm gonna run with

thanks a heap ppl for your suggestions, all sound advice much appreciated.

btw i think i'll post pics of my exhaust gasket mod (thin alloy, being lighter than a clunky old full size stock gasket reduces the total weight of saw, hence bringing up my power/weight ratio, yeeeaaaaaaahh )

 

[gdn]

can you call another dealer?

(eh, if you don't want to read my little rant about bad manners simple answer is no gaskets left in state, on back order, takes time. 338xpt has very bad rep around here don't think there is much demand for parts.)

for ranting, read on:

weeeellll, there is a little story to this; i ordered the gaskets for a 338xpt from one dealer who said they would be there next week,
when i go to pick them up they are in a stihl packet and i say 'that's strange, you get your gaskets from stihl?' and they say 'of course' so i shrug my shoulders and look at the pack in my hand...
038,
ahhhh, i say sorry we must have miscommunicated i was after 338xpt not 038xpt the dealer says oh and tells me the husky ones would be there next week,
next week i go in and ask if 3 husky gaskets had shown up and the 2 sales ppl look at each other the first one kindly expalins to the other i was the guy who thought his 338xpt was a stihl 038, stupid customers and all that, no sorry your gasket has not arrived yet,
on principle i don't care about being talked down about when i don't care about the ppl talking and vice versa so i just asked blunt when i should come in to pick up the gaskets and the dealer shrugs his shoulders and looks blank (he good at this) so i say 'oh i just come pick them up when i feel like it then'
he says this is fine and i leave store planning never to feel like picking them up.
i realise i being an ??????? there but seriously i have bought a few items from this store no need to be their 'annoying' customer
so i order from another dealer, who kindly explained that seeing as the goods were on back order (prob from some pesky kiwi ordering 6 lol) it would be a 3 week wait. Also the state i live in, WA australia, has been tenderly given the nickname Wait Awhile, australia, things just slow around here.
i think if i ordered 1 the first time there would have been a chance i would have recieved in a week, but i had to stock up lol
Now i sleep happy with a little gleam in my eye from the knowledge that the first dealer, Mr Diplomacy, has 6 useless exhaust gaskets sitting on his shelf gathering dust taking up stock space shedding carciogenic fibres into his rotting lungs. HA.