DQ, looks great. I also had my airbox repainted and replated my original clips but wasn't successful in getting the new gasket on the lid to stay. It's a lot smaller and made to be stretched in place but wants to jump out. Even the 3M trim adhesive would not keep it in place due to the high tension. I lost patience and put the intact old one in place which fit perfectly.
Curious to see what the crafty mind and fingers of DQ do about this...
ha, ha, ha, you came to the right place, i did it, not at the first attempt, but yes it is doable,
first, the gasket is not smaller, size is correct
second, you do not need adhesive to keep it in place,
funny, isnt it ?
well, the point is that the gasket should be elongated evenly while being introduced in (forced into) the channel, the procedure is the following, this one works:
(apologies for the way of explaining this, it is pretty difficult to explain a complex assembly procedure like this one, hope i will make myself understood)(i might have told you, but, english is not my mother tongue, right ?)
the gasket is a piece of moosgummi that has been glued in a central point, you should install it by means of the expanding pressure that the gasket exerts against the channel, it is a sort of pre-tension what you should do, when you elongate the gasket and you force it into the channel the gasket wants to recover its size, so it makes pressure against the channel and this friction makes it stay in place
this pressure/friction is able to compensate the force to pop out the channel, i can see the pressure as something that happens in the section of the gasket against the longitudinal tension that tries to pop it out
so the key is to elongate evenly the gasket, and your only help is geometry, so first mark the gasket in the flat side using a blue pen, take the glued central point as a reference and mark four sectors being the central point the first one (you must paint three marks)
this will help you knowing when you are supposed to make coincide the streched gasket with the right point of the channel
now starting point, this is crucial, you must start in the middle of one of the long sides, not in the curve, but in the straight side
use a piece of tape to assure the gasket that is left out and start stretching and pushing the gasket into the channel, as soon as you have made a few centimetres put a piece of tape to assure this,
now use the painted reference to see how much you need to stretch to reach the first quadrant, when you start doing the curve use a piece of tape to assure the gasket again, use as many tape pieces as you want, you will remove them later,
you will find the use of the tape when you start the last curved section, you will need to stretch the part you are installing, but keeping an eye on the part already done (the starting point)
if needed reinforce the holding tape around the starting point
the final part is the most difficult, as you might have too much gasket to introduce, so you should work both ways, also from the starting point and backwards
then you remove the tape pieces, and, miraculously it will hold in place, i have done two already so the procedure is now checked
