To anneal, or not to anneal, that is the question

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Oh for crying out loud, It's just a freaking joke. The authors question was answered 3 time in the first 3 answers.

Anneal if you want to, don't if you don't. All else is fair game.

"Humor is a funny thing!" pete.v
 
Slick's proposed test would yield valuable info especially regarding the number of times re-torque is necessary. I wouldn't ridicule it.
Jaydee
 
concours said:
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texasSlick said:
To anneal, or not to anneal, that is the question
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many years ago when I rebuilt my engine, I couldn't get the copper gasket to seal my head. I think Mike Partrige of waldridge motors told me (and sold me) to use the flame ring gasket. I used it and had no trouble with head gasket leaks since. I recall trying to anneal the copper gasket, but I couldn't get it to seal. Perhaps I was impatient in my youth and didn't work meticulously enough.
 
Anneal if it makes you feel good. If you want to find out the truth for yourself - put a mic on a annealed used copper gasket and look for thin spots (I haven't found any). I never take a chance anymore and use the thin copper wire on the head gasket with contact cement. I don't use flame ring anymore after having one leak on me (after time). You don't have any choice if you have a 920 or larger.
 
Oops, In my impulsive desire to learn the answer to this obviously much contested conundrum, I forgot to include the words "copper head gasket." Fortunately the astute members of this forum intuited my meaning. Then it got off on a freedom of speech tangent. What fun. I much prefer the tongue-in-cheek fecal-annealing process to the anal-retentive (we're getting scatological here) ooh-you-said-a-dirty-word language-police stance. I'm actually installing a .080" thick gasket to lower my compression, which is pretty high in this bike I purchased of unknown provenance. My 72-year-old leg can't take the punishment anymore. And, really going out on a limb here (or not) I am NOT going to anneal it.
 
You won't have any problems at all with not annealing your head gasket, over the years I have used copper head gaskets and flame ring gaskets, with the flame ring my head leaked so after that I went back to copper and have never had any problems, for easier starting maybe you need to get a longer kick starter makes it easier on the old leg (T160 folding kick start) and make sure timing and carbs are set right.

Ashley
 
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