Cheap Gaskets?

Why risk it???

 

It’s a lot of work AGAIN if they fail

 

Pfffft, if you haven’t made a gasket from an old cereal box you’re not a real motorbicyclist.

 

Definitely not worth the risk!

 

It’s the head gasket that would be my main concern
The rest of them would probably be ok
Depends on the savings against the risk

 

If I had half the talent of this guy

 

Copper head gaskets are a bit of a faf to make, i loved it when they developed silicone for gaskets you could have an oil tight Triumph.

 

Never used cereal boxes but i've used telephone directory covers.

 

I had one issue with a pattern gasket for my old trumpet, but it was an identification issue. You have to split the engine casing to change the drive sprocket iirc. My bike was a Legend but the gasket was for a Sprint of the same year. Slightly, but obviously, different when married up to the engine casing. I called the dealer up, who apologised and sent out the new gasket the same day.
New one fitted like a dream, but I’d had a couple of days without oil in the engine.
Never leaked and all was good otherwise