At 06:03 PM 3/4/2000 -0800, Alex Baroiant wrote:
>.... The gasket was MISSING a chunk about 3/4" long between cylinders #1
and #2...It is a copper gasket too, which makes this really interesting!
>
>Should I have the bottom of the cylinder head resurfaced, or just throw a
new gasket in there? ....
Find a really straight straight-edge and lay it across the surface of the
head in the area where the gasket blew. Look from the front and shine a
light from the back. If you can see the light shining under the
straight-edge, then the head needs to be resurfaced. If no light
underneath, then you can put it back together with a new gasket. I would
recommend using a fiber gasket. I have had much better luck with those.
Any time I ever tried to replace a blown gasket with a copper one it blew
out again in short order. The fiber gaskets were standard on '75-'80 MGBs.
Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude
http://www.ntsource.com/~barneymg
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