One of the first things I learned about working on cars is that you
never reuse a gasket. Over the years I found out that you can
occasionally reuse certain gaskets, for example the ones between the
SUs and the spacer blocks.
I had to pull the intake manifold/blower to fix the munged mixture
adjustment on my HIF. It may have been theoretically possible to do it
with the carb in place, but it wasn't practically feasible. It's also,
as far as I can tell, impossible to remove the carb from the blower
with the unit bolted in place.
I've got the manifold off. The gasket looks perfect. virgin
even. There's a good deal (30-60 minutes) of work to take off the
headers, and the studs, and replace the gasket. I don't want to do
this, but I will anyways. However, in the future, is the manifold
gasket, especeially one of the ones that is metal on both sides,
something that can be reused if it hasn't been damaged?
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I've found something worse than oldies station that play the music I used to
listen to. Oldies stations that play the "new" music I used to complain about.
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