Bryan,
You can buy gasket paper by the roll and cut your own... Check with your
local parts supply house. They should be able to help you with this.
Best of luck,
Jeff in San Diego
'67 RHD Spitfire Mk3
www.ohms.com/spitfire/spitfire.shtml
----- Original Message -----
From: Bryan Stinocher <sixpacktr@hotmail.com>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 7:51 AM
Subject: Gaskets
>
> List,
>
> Just a quick dumb question. Last night I wanted to put my water pump back
on
> the engine, and noticed that I didn't have the gasket for this (I have 3
of
> the pump to housing gaskets, but not one housing to engine block gasket!).
> Anyway, I was tempted to use some heavy paper, like construction paper, to
> make a gasket, but thought I'd ask you learned ones if that would work or
> not. I got to thinking that maybe gasket paper is some type of special
> paper, and didn't want to put the parts back on with something that won't
> work.
>
> Can I just use some heavy duty paper? Or is gasket paper something
special?
> If it is, can the paper be bought somewhere so that I can cut it out
myself
> (I hate to place an order for a $0.75 part and pay $5 shipping!).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bryan
>
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