head gasket thickness?
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head gasket thickness?
whats the stock thickness for the gaskets on a 289? the ones on here look huge almost like someone put 2 under each head? someone told me they were .045 ? whats the thinnest i can rn without bashing anything up?
#2
RE: head gasket thickness?
Uh- if the previous owner did that - i would suspect either a warped head or block. The double gasket trick is the ghetto fix versus a deck and mill.
Be prepared for a trip to the machine shop before just re-installing them.
Why are you going in there?
Be prepared for a trip to the machine shop before just re-installing them.
Why are you going in there?
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RE: head gasket thickness?
I wouldn't go over .040, otherwise quench gets too large and you'll detonate. That's not true of a built engine that has negetive deck clearance, where the piston pops out of the block at TDC so you have to run a thicker gasket. On a stock engine though, you'll have several thousandths deck clearance + gasket for quench.
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