I have just put the head gasket onto the engine and one of the holes doesn't quite line up with a water passage. Should I file the gasket away a little or leave it is? It is obscuring about half the hole.
wuick responses appreciated! cheers John --- John Hobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the first time in over month I actually have some time to spend on > getting Saskia back on the road. When I last left the project a few > weeks ago I had removed the cylinder head, water pump, manifold and > carbs. > > Today I have cleaned up the new rocker gear that I got from spitfire > graveyard with gunk, it came up very nicely. I have also scraped all > of > the gasket faces with a knife and sanded them down to remove all of the > muck (water pump, manifold, down-pipe, carbs. I only scraped the head > and block without sanding. > > I also had to make a small JB Weld repair to the water pipe on the > inlet > manifold as it had rusted away at either end. > > Tomorrow I have the 'simple' job of putting it all back together. I > was > going to clean up the gasket faces with brake cleaner before > re-assembling. Is there anything in particular I should do to ensure > that the gaskets all make a good seal? > > I am going to use some liquid gasket on the manifold/downpipe rather > than > no gasket as other listers have advised. > > I also have some liquid gasket that use as well as the gasket (rather > than instead of). I don't have any plans to use this anywhere, is > there > anywhere that you would advise I do use it? > > On restarting the engine I was going to make sure that the rockers were > well coated in oil, are there any other precautions that I should take? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /// Send admin requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive /// Send list postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, they will NOT be sent.
