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RE: cylinder liner height problem

To: "'SpiwakD@aol.com'" <SpiwakD@aol.com>, fot@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: cylinder liner height problem
From: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:57:31 -0700
You can change the figure eight gaskets. You probably have two different
thicknesses installed in the car. I've found wide variations in the
thickness of them between sets and manufacturers. 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of SpiwakD@aol.com
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 6:33 AM
To: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: cylinder liner height problem


I was unable to get a good seal with a steel gasket and upon removing the 
head, found that all the liners are 1-2 thousandths high on one side of the
car 
and 4-6 thousandths on the other. Heights were measured with the liners
torqued 
down with a steel plate.
 
This is an older engine which I have run for years with no problems. I can 
get a good seal with a stock head gasket, but part of the gasket protrudes
into 
the combustion chamber. I am thinking of trying one of the solid gaskets
from 
Gasket Works, unless someone can tell me how to level the liners.
                                                                Dave

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