Gasket cleaning?
 

Any tips on how to remove bits of gasket from the engine, i dont want to damage the surfaces!

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would a solvent of some sort get them off??

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Thats what i was thinking, also some sort of plastic scraper (maybe the kind of stuff they use to remove bath sealant)

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Razor/stanley blade

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have you tried an ice scraper?? they have a pretty half decent edge on them when new

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Stick with a blade and maybe some WD40.

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I use a old scraper.

No not a decorators tool. An engineers scraper. The sort of tools that proper engine builders use. Then again it must be 30 years since I last scraped a bearing.

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an old BLUNT wood chisel, a blunt wallpaper scraper

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I have a chisel that I ground to make it sharp and use that for stubborn bits but mainly use a Stanley knife blade and patience.

Squirrell_Hunter has one of these:

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/pr...ive-hand-tools

But I don't really like it.

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Tim I don't like proper scraper on gaskets, too easy to take an actual scrape. Then again dunno what you will take scraping ally, probably a thou or so with a firm scrape.

Same reason I don't like blunt stuff, I wrap a bit of shim stock round the back of a razorblade and some tape to protect the pinkies. I find it gets in between gasket and ally very easily.