Definitely a new gasket. No reason to go cheap here. Once they are
compressed, they won't seal as well again.
Mike MacLean
60 Sprite
56 BN2
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> From: Jackson Zimmermann <JZIMMERM@albemarle.org>
> Subject: Head Gasket Question
> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:55:53 -0500
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>A question for the list. In fitting a new shaved head with APT composite
>headgasket to the sprite, I needed to shim my valvetrain. In doing so, I
>first torqued everything down to figure out that I needed to shim, removed
>all the nuts to install some shims, torqued again, then figured out that I
>needed more shims, removed the nuts, installed more shims and retorqued,
>figured out that I overshimmed, removed the nuts again, and am now ready to
>finally install the head (whew!).
>
>Now that I have done all this with the current new headgasket, what is the
>wisdom of the list? Should I pull the head (everything is loose now) and
>install a brand new, never-seen-compression-between-the-head-and-block
>gasket? Or is the existing gasket that has been compressed a few times
>going to cut the mustard?
>
>Jackson Zimmermann
>jzimmerm@albemarle.org
>'64 A-H Sprite (1275 & 5-speed, etc.)
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