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Give us a call, or email us with your particular enquiries – we can replicate most flexible gaskets and even moulded rubber parts using either low-cost tooling or 3D tool-less production – in a wide range of materials !
Replacement Diesel Engine Gaskets
We’re almost ready to add lots of these parts to our web-shop. The area will be password-protected – if you would like an invite to join, please email us at info@easeals.co.uk
We are constantly adding more parts to our list of replacement diesel engine gaskets for various engine models including Allen, Bergen, British Polar, Ruston, Perkins, Cummins, Caterpillar, Dorman, MAN, MTU, Mirrlees, Paxman, Vasa, Volvo, Wartsila etc.
Many of the parts already costed, are items we hold original drawings for and already produce for aftermarket customers. Others are items we know having made them previously and for which we’ve either offered identical or equivalent materials for. In all cases we are able to manufacture and supply these parts at a fraction of the cost of OEM supplied products, often saving end users substantial amounts of money.
While the ‘aftermarket’ business for cars, vans and trucks in the UK is undoubtedly big business, it is also highly competitive with much lower margins (even with many parts coming from India and the Far East!). We have historically worked with diesel engine rebuilders, where quantities are much lower – but the gaskets are bigger ! We work on the principal that 10% of a £20.00 diesel engine gasket is £2.00 – while 10% of a £1.00 car engine gasket is only £0.10p – and to market those gaskets requires higher volume production, enormous stocks of product, and extensive catalogues and a highly advertised on-line presence. All of this has to be paid for – and while the customer base is much larger – it’s also more difficult to handle. We leave that to the automotive aftermarket distributors !
With the UK looking to become a leader in Green power, the heavy duty diesel engine market will eventually drop off and older engines will be phased out as running costs continue to increase. This will make the market a shrinking one – many suppliers will concentrate on the new rising market of Green propulsion and power – parts for the older engines will become more and more difficult to obtain.
Today, we are proud to know that our parts are maintaining engines built over 50 years ago. In some cases, generator plants at major hospitals fall into that category for instance – and many of the marine engines we support are certainly over 30 years old.
So – although this market may be ‘shrinking’ – we see a potential for our products that can certainly last for another 50 years!
Call us for any parts you need – if we can’t identify the item from our parts list, then we can simply replicate any gasket from the old gasket. , we’ll check that against our drawings before cutting and guarantee when quoting to be at least 50% cheaper than the OEM version. Also if you order 10 gaskets, you’ll get a further 10% discount and all orders over £50.00 are carriage paid for UK deliveries !
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Making it or Faking It ?
Engine Manufacturers – invest £millions in research, development and testing of new engines – so it is understandable that once into production, there is a significant cost included per complete engine.
These engines are sold at a profit for all sorts of applications – for gen-sets, stationary pumps, cars, tractors, dump trucks, diggers, railway locomotives, cargo ships, cruise liners etc.
While engines are under warranty, guarantee or need to meet specific insurance requirements, you will undoubtedly have to purchase wear items and spares from the OEMs. As the OEM is an engine manufacturer, it is likely that items such as Diesel Engine Gaskets and Seals, are produced by other specialist companies, such as ourselves. These companies are normally tied to the OEM through NDA’s and Supply Agreements that prohibit them from supplying anyone other than the OEM.
Inevitably many OEM spare parts are sold offering maximum performance with guaranteed results – but at a price!
By using our experience, we are able to replicate many parts – at much lower prices than those offered by the OEM.
Undoubtedly the OEM or Parts Manufacturers will look to protect their business by stating that companies like ourselves are quoting prices without the ability to produce the parts – or that ‘special’ materials are being used that we would not be able to match !
We’re more than happy to prove them wrong and to truly support those customers with product – especially on older engines where spares become less obtainable or more expensive !
Materials
We already know many materials used by engine manufacturers. Occasionally they will have ‘bespoke’ materials designed and manufactured for sole supply to them, but in most cases the materials used are all commercially available. Once we know where a gasket is used, what it is expected to deal with and for how long, we can usually advise which materials should be used. Visible inspection of a new or old part will also allow us to determine the grade, while material testing can be used – especially for rubbers, if exact matches are required.
Most engine manufacturers also issue their own specifications – copies of these for companies such as Caterpillar and their UK manufacturer, Perkins – can be found on the web. For many years Perkins TD69 ‘Technical Data Document’ listed the major jointing materials they used, while other documents such as TD500 set out general machining standards for products. Caterpillar tend to have individual specification sheets for each material used and many of these are now catalogued as we receive details from existing customers.
Design
If we do not already have a drawing for the part required, we can quickly produce CAD images from samples – new or old – or even from engine parts. Before production we’re also able to offer a template service where the shape is quickly laser-cut and sent to check alignment with the mating parts.
Production
Depending on how many parts are required, we have various methods of manufacture – from tool-less laser, water-jet and automatic knife cutters to high speed automatic presses using low-cost tooling.
Example
Using one of the parts above as an example, this is what can be offered:
Perkins SEV659B/7 Timing Case Gasket 4000 Series
0.8mm thick Non Asbestos – Our equivalent grade – Moto
54 gaskets per sheet – as nested below.
By nesting parts and as we cut, also infilling all the spare material with other parts, we ensure our wastage is less than 8% per sheet – and that waste is recyclable! This particular gasket has 36 bolt holes and even the pips from those holes can be recycled into lower grade material.
These diesel engine gaskets can be cut by water-jet without tooling at a rate of 120 gaskets per hour – or alternatively by automatic press (with tooling) at up to an astonishing 1600 parts per hour. Using either of these methods with our Maximum Yield Utilisation, we can simply cost parts by weight ensuring our customers only pay for what they are getting, and any waste costed into their product is not being sold again to someone else for another part!
With this particular gasket, our cost range is between £18.28 each for short runs and £4.24 each for high volumes. Here a few others from our exhaust manifold section of our library:
| EAS Ref | OEM Ref | Desc | OEM £ each | EAS £ each |
| 341/184 | PERKHOLO204 | Exhaust manifold section Gsk | £34.80 | £5.22 |
| 341/189 | PERKHOLO205 | Exhaust manifold section Gsk | £42.45 | £6.37 |
| 341/201 | PERKHOLO209 | Exhaust manifold section Gsk | £48.80 | £7.32 |
| 341/173 | PERKHOLO341 | Exhaust manifold section Gsk | £45.90 | £6.89 |
| 3681V505 | PERKHOLO342 | Exhaust Manifold Turbo Gsk | £10.75 | £1.61 |
| 36822154 | PERKHOLO32 | Exhaust Outlet Flange Gsk | £4.90 | £1.68 |
| 3684N027 | PERKHOLO116 | Exhaust Outlet Flange Gsk | £10.50 | £2.92 |
| 494/132 | PERKHOLO206 | Exhaust Outlet Flange Gsk | £217.20 | £32.58 |
| 494/134 | PERKHOLO207 | Exhaust Outlet Flange Gsk | £92.30 | £13.85 |
| 494/135 | PERKHOLO208 | Exhaust Outlet Flange Gsk | £38.85 | £5.83 |
So you can see, there can be some significant savings to be made – and the materials we use all have proven track records in the same – or similar applications Worldwide !
It’s not just ‘soft-cut’ gaskets that we can replicate !
Rubber Mouldings
The majority of rubber mouldings used on diesel engines can be replicated at relatively low cost from 3D scans of the original parts. As with gaskets, material identification is critical and engine manufacturers typically work to their own specifications – many of which we’ve managed to catalogue over the years.
From the product description, we can normally ascertain what the part is doing and what conditions it is expected to meet. We have lots of customers who work all types of engines, and if we have any doubt we can get first hand experience from lots of engineers.
Metallic Gaskets
As a gasket manufacturer, we produce lots of metallic gaskets. These are used for different applications on each engine, and are normally designed to take higher pressures. Being rigid materials, to obtain suitable sealing the parts have to meet tight tolerances – again manufacturers specifications for these can be used.
Rubber to Metal Gaskets
These types of gaskets have developed from the car industry, where finer machining allowed for thinner, higher pressure gaskets. Today we see these gaskets produced in punched form from pre-coated steel, laminated, over-moulded or beaded (as gasket section shown here) – to produce surfaces with better surface contact.
Over-moulded gaskets such as the Valve Cover Gasket below – are produced on a 0.5mm steel carrier with a super-thin silicone coating and micro-beading to match the OEM specification.
