help! em gasekt position

[cobram at juno.com]

I was wrong....I just saw this in a Cheby manual:

"Metal Gaskets are installed on the head side. Fiber Gaskets are
installed towards the exhaust manifold. Silver side of Fiber Exhaust
Gasket is installed toward the exhaust manifold. The Silver side forms to
the exhaust manifold when bolts/nuts are torqued  to provide an excellent
seal."

I suspect this is not GM specific info, so it probably applies to Audi's
too.  I guess I've been doing it wrong, but like I said, I've never had
one leak, the exhaust gaskets on the 5KS are going on 14 years since I
replaced them, and they're still leak free.

BCNU,
http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/

cobram at juno.com writes:
> I could be wrong, but I always install shiny side towards manifold,  


Konstantine Bogach <kbogach at comcast.net> writes:
> > What is beaded side of the gaseket: metal or non-metal?  Bentley 
> > says 
> > "beaded side towards head".   I am not sure I understand the term 
> > "beaded".  Stupid me.