Joined Nov 2001
17K Posts | 774+
Ely, England
what a peice of crap!
two things have drawn me to that conclusion.
firstly, whilst i don't expect to use an old headgasket, i certainly don't expect a headgasket to rely on a band of blue crap around the outside that you can rub off with your hand!!! i have had cause on a job to use a hedgasket three times in three days as i tried to get over a ring problem which i will tell you all about sometime.....but not yet!
the surfaces were cleaned up and the gasket re-used but it's gone - you know, had it! i mean that is rubbish - right? all the blue band had rubbed or fallen off!
but another thing made me think this....
i dropped the coolant at the W/P housing and then went to the top hose which i removed completely. what should be staring at me?.............. the coolant! so how come it can't fall out the head and through to the W/P housing?
and then you look at it again and this is where i ask a question (and not a rhetorical one as above).... why have that huge water jacket if all you have is 8 drilled holes in the headgasket? why the restriction? what's the reason?
so has anyone like bushie or weed had a look and had a think about this?
why? that's what i want to know! why?
regards
Taffy
two things have drawn me to that conclusion.
firstly, whilst i don't expect to use an old headgasket, i certainly don't expect a headgasket to rely on a band of blue crap around the outside that you can rub off with your hand!!! i have had cause on a job to use a hedgasket three times in three days as i tried to get over a ring problem which i will tell you all about sometime.....but not yet!
the surfaces were cleaned up and the gasket re-used but it's gone - you know, had it! i mean that is rubbish - right? all the blue band had rubbed or fallen off!
but another thing made me think this....
i dropped the coolant at the W/P housing and then went to the top hose which i removed completely. what should be staring at me?.............. the coolant! so how come it can't fall out the head and through to the W/P housing?
and then you look at it again and this is where i ask a question (and not a rhetorical one as above).... why have that huge water jacket if all you have is 8 drilled holes in the headgasket? why the restriction? what's the reason?
so has anyone like bushie or weed had a look and had a think about this?
why? that's what i want to know! why?
regards
Taffy
