I'll see what kind of response Cometic Gasket offers and what kind of lead time they need. I was told that the cost of renting the replacement sweeper to fill in is about the same as a new engine would have been.
Kinda makes a guy scratch his head and wonder why we don't own a "back up" sweeper.
Hercules JXLD! Oh God I feel your pain. Unless that one is better than the Hercules G-1600, it is not, well....up to date.
The G-1600 proved so sorry in our fleet of the late 1980s that I would mockingly brag that Hercules builds their engines with the very latest and most innovative technology available......in 1925.