[Mgs] Head gasket advice--update

Charles & Peggy Robinson ccrobins at ktc.com
Thu Aug 14 20:50:33 MDT 2008


  I'd make sure the block was flat and to chamfer the head stud holes, too.

   CR

Stuart MacMillan wrote:
> Thanks John,
> 
> I got the ARP studs, very pricey!  It turned out that the head was cracked
> between #1 & #2, very unusual.  Even the machinist, a British car specialist
> here in Seattle) missed it, and he said he's never seen one crack like this.
> He's now rebuilding an early head I had lying around.  
> 
> I'm going with the Payen gasket set too, so I'm pretty confident, now that I
> know the reason for the failure. 
> 
> Stuart


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