Ditto...Using Payen for several years now and has been one less thing to worry
about.
Joe Alexander
Subject: Re: [Fot] trt 3/4 head gasket
Like Tony we use a stock Payen gasket notched to fit the larger valve with no
problem. My take is that one must make sure the head & block are flat & true
&
properly installed.
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On Nov 15, 2012, at 12:36 AM, Tony Drews <tony@tonydrews.com> wrote:
> I use a stock composite gasket and will get a season out of it. I was at
about 0.175 milled, am now at 0.130 after my last head gasket problem turned
out to be a collapsing combustion chamber in the head problem. I don't have
giant valves (they clear the 87 mm liners), so I notched the liner to match
the "mickey ear" of the stock gasket so there was something supporting it on
one side in the pocket that disappeared. I put the seam side against the
liner then.
>
> Tony Drews
>
> At 12:18 PM 11/10/2012, KENMUN@aol.com wrote:
>> anyone having success with the stock composite head gasket on a milled
>> head. my head has been milled .150" and the intake valve pockets are gone.
i'm
>> not having much luck with the steel gasket.
>> thanks, ken m. tr 3 vintage racer.
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