I-5 metal head gaskets

Richard J. Andrews tech at flashmail.com
Thu Jul 25 17:56:41 EDT 2002


out of all of the 5 cylinder's i've owned the only one i've had to change a
headgasket was a 5000 that was run out of coolant.

The rest of the engines (10) have never been opened up.

go figure..

-rich
At 03:03 PM 7/25/02, you wrote:

>--- Michael Gough <mdg3369 at mac.com> wrote:
> > > The stock ones are so prone to failure, there
> > should really be better
> > > alternatives. A
> >
> > Are they really? I haven't ever had any trouble.
> > Have you? I've known about
> > the exhaust manifolds being prone to failure ;) but
> > haven't heard head
> > gaskets brought up more than once or twice.
> > Mike
>
>Yea, and that was probably all me.  The key is not to
>re-use the stock head bolts.
>
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