[Healeys] Head Gasket

Perry Small healeyguy at aol.com
Sun Apr 19 10:41:35 MDT 2020


Not trying to cause any confusion on this topic. The reason the Payen gasket is marked TOP and FRONT is because the gasket WILL fit either way. The lower photo is two gaskets, one atop the other but one is TOP up and the other inverted. The holes all line up.
The issue is which side of the gasket had the cylinder crimp, the bent over seal around each cylinder, is up or down. On older copper faced Payen gaskets the crimp is against the block or Down. Thus the other side is marked with the Top and Front markings. Some later Payen head gaskets use a one piece (separate piece of metal) crimp. After this change the gasket I have looked at are not marked Top or Front. 
Perry

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