Wellseal

[chrisx1]

Do people use wellseal with the paper base gasket ?

[DAVE BRADY]

Hi,

I would say that the modern gaskets need little more than a good smear of high melting point grease rubbed well in.  Howerver, in reality I use a combination of Blue Hylomar and high melting point grease.
On gaskets that are there for the long haul I use the Hylomar on both sides eg base gasket and inner timing case - these would be a pain to replace if there was leak.  On others I use the Hylomar on the side that gets removed eg primary case, outer timing case and rocker cover with hmp grease on the other side.  This means that the joint can be opened up several times without having to replace the gasket as it remains intact.

Dave.

[chrisx1]

Ok, well I think I will try white lithium grease which I heard about on an American site.

[hoogerbooger]

High melting point grease?  Rupert Ratio just said ' grease'.

So fo I need to interrogate Castrol on the melting point of my 30 yr old tub of LM (2) grease?

[Allan G]

I use wellseal on all my paper gaskets. It doesn't give me any trouble.

[Rob Neal]

I use well seal too as it's easy to remove should you you need to disturb and clean up the joint at some point in the future. Some other products act like cement after a few years and it can be a bugger to get off.

[iansoady]

I use wellseal on all metal to metal gaskets; on one side of paper ones (grease on the other side) and on annealed copper head gaskets. Super stuff.

[DAVE BRADY]

Hi,

I think that the quality of the gasket is important.  In the old days they were not much more than paper but today there seems to be a range of quality out there.
For quite few years a material called 'Halite' seemed to be quite common and it worked really well and could be reused many times.  I suspect that they contained asbestos so have had the formula changed.  Currently there seems to be green ones and orange ones.
The green seem ok but the orange seem a bit brittle.
SRM sell 'Klingersil' gaskets.

Dave.

[Allan G]

I use klingersil gaskets, a guy on BSA used to sell them individually so I would just buy the ones I needed. They are quite thick and have a waxy like finish. I still use the well seal. Often I can carefully remove the gasket and reuse them.

[chrisx1]

Thanks for all the replies.

[EDDIE SIMPSON]

i ve seen a video of the triumph factory using wellseal to seal the crankcases and other engine parts.
i have some old a10 crankcases and i think bsa used hermatite red.

[Ray A10]

hi,
     yes I use welseal and loctite 518 I remember as a 16 year old many many years ago a friend was selling his tiger cub every joint was covered in red hermatite
my god what a mess.

[Mosin]

I have been using nitrile rubber gaskets which I buy from some chap off ebay. They appear to be well made and last well. The only downside which I have found is that there seems to be something in Wellseal which causes them to disintegrate. They work brilliantly with any other sealant, grease, or even no seal, but on the couple of times I have tried them with Wellseal, they have literally dropped to pieces within about 24 hours. Has anyone else experienced this?

[Mapy]

I've used Wellseal for years (decades), incliding on rubber seals amd never had a problem. In saying that, rurrer isn't what it used to be...

[mo goldie]

I have used Wellseal for over 35 years and never had any problems at all. I do use it on both sides of the Gasket too.

I just redone a triumph head and used it on the rockerbox`s which he had leaks on...Now he is all good No leaks...... so I would say Wellseal is Great.......... I think unless some one knows diferant that it was devaliped by Rolls royce ?

I use it on all BSA Triumph..... Norton... Honda.... yamaha.... and all the others LOL just saying