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Oil gallery o-rings

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aglick87:
I ordered a complete gasket set for my 78 550k.  It said it included "all" o-rings.  When I sorted them all out, I came to find that the o-rings between the block and head that seal off the oil galleries feeding the cam/valves were not included.  So now I am left with the fun of finding two small metric o-rings.  I looked up the part on powersportspro and found that the size is either 4.9 x 2.5 or 5 x 2.4.  Does anyone know any chain stores in the U.S. that sell metric o-rings.  I would hate to order a part like this from a dealer and look like an @ss. Thanks in advance

CHUNG:
I used to religiously go to HONDA for those parts but you can make do at wallmart. lol. Grab a set of calipers and go to NAPA ect. Now that you know the proper size.... A 10-20% increase in dia is cool, a touch smaller might work as well but don't go "too" big/small on the "tube" dia. I feel that a touch oversized is better. NAPA also carries some refrigiration stuff that I haven't had a change to explore yet?

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