Are head and cylinder gaskets compression gaskets? |
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Are head and cylinder gaskets compression gaskets? |
stevegm |
Oct 22 2016, 01:04 PM
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I need to remove the heads off of a newly rebuilt engine (4-cylinder) I built (never run). They have already been torqued. Are the head gaskets and gasket between the cylinder and block, compression gaskets that should be thrown away (i.e., replaced with new one) after I untorque the heads?
The head gaskets will be easy to replace. But I'd have to pull the cylinders to replace the ones between them and the block. |
Keyser Sose |
Oct 24 2016, 10:09 AM
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Cool, but I wouldn't depend on Haynes as gospel, and if you're going to defer to the engineer who designed the engine then you need to eliminate those gaskets. Here, the last word from VW on that subject:
http://www.ratwell.com/mirror/www.dolphins...m/techbull.html My own experience is that the failure rate is very small, maybe a percent or two and after a lot of miles, but those are still failures and there's no need for it. I know some builders still use gaskets, so it's not certain death or anything, and of course you can do anything you want with your own engines. |
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