[Spridgets] Head Gasket

Hal Faulkner frog.aye at gmail.com
Sun Sep 11 20:49:27 MDT 2011


Was the head re-torqued after a couple of heat cycles?
Hal

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Kitterer Bob <bkitterer at me.com> wrote:

> Also on my rounds today was a stop to lend a hand with a young fellows 66'
> Sprite.  It was thought that he had a carb problem but by the time I arrived
> it had been determined that he currently had a 2 cylinder engine. So off
> came the head to discover that the head gasket was blown out between numbers
> 1 and 2 cylinders.  Now comes the real question, the engine was recently
> rebuilt and only has a 150 mile, what would cause a blow out of almost on
> inch of head gasket?  I know it has been discussed in recent times about
> what is the best head gasket but my being mobile sort of limits what and how
> much data I can keep or access.  It would be nice if I could make a good
> suggestion before they just order one from the usual source.
>
> Bob Kitterer and Dolores
>
> 1960 Austin Healey Sprite (Mk IV in disguise) - in storage
> 1966 Austin Healey Sprite Mk III (Trevor) - still in boxes - in storage
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