Headlight bucket

[tanda62]

While restoring the headlight buckets on my 63 I scraped off some gasket material where the bucket comes in contact with the body.  I cannot find any reference to a gasket and the parts book does not list one for the round headlight Avanti only for the square headlight.  So I guess I need to make a gasket for this unless someone knows of a place that makes one for this location.  Thanks, Tom

 

[RoyG]

When I cleaned up mine the material I removed seemed more like a flexible mastic tape material than a gasket.  I had some metal building roof mastic tape laying around so I used that.  It forms to fit, is sticky as hell, and never dries hard/brittle.  It might not be original, but no one will ever see it and it won't leak!

[1963r2]

Try looking for Hawk or Lark gaskets. I think the only difference in the bucket is the location of the hole for the wiring.