A tisket, a tasket, a new rubber gasket…

Freshly made gaskets before reassembling the instrument cluster.

While the instrument cluster is off the bike – we're waiting for a shipment of fork oil before putting the front end back together – it made sense to cut some new gaskets to replace the brittle 47 year old ones.

For the gaskets under the speedo and tach bodies, we sourced a 3/32" fabric reinforced neoprene rubber which matched closest to the original gasket material. Templates were made in Adobe Illustrator with center points for the arcs, and the new gaskets were carefully cut with an X-Acto knife and a circle cutter. 

Templates 1.0. Version 2.0 with arc centerpoints worked better.

The original tiny, thin gasket underneath the knurled trip meter was made from a paper thin rubber that had folded on itself. For this gasket, we chose a 1/64" water-resistant lightweight fiber gasket material made from a blend of paper fiber and SBR rubber.

5/64" gasket cut easily with the paper and rubber gasket material.

The newly done instrument cluster is ready to go back on the bike!