The New Style Head Gasket (Pictures attached for reference)sacha |
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 international man of mystery Posts: 2484    | I havent seen a thread with this so thought i would add it. Not sure if you are all aware but there is a new type gasket available for the k series engine to hopefully help the Head gasket issues. I went to Landrover and asked for the upgraded head gasket. They gave me the one on the right ( i didnt check when they gave it to me in the box). This is the revised OLD gasket. I called them to tell them that this was the old style but They couldnt sell me the new gasket as they are on back order, but my local motor factors are stocking them by payen. Here are the pictures so you know if you have the uprated one or not. Old one is the silver one with red/orange silicon bead around it (RIGHT) New one is a triple layer gasket with metal in the middle and full silicon sheets over it (LEFT) Hope that helps so you dont get fobbed off like they tried doing with me  (HPIM0973.JPG)  (HPIM0975.JPG)  (HPIM0978.JPG) Attachments ----------------  HPIM0973.JPG (64KB - 354 downloads) HPIM0975.JPG (49KB - 324 downloads) HPIM0978.JPG (34KB - 328 downloads) | ||
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 drive it like its hired   | cheers for that  | ||
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drive it like its hired | same mate  | ||
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 Veteran Posts: 354 Location: Balaguer-Lerida-Spain | I've been told though that using this new style gasket will require a New Oil Rail due to different thickness. Alex Edited by Alex B 19/2/2007 5:16 AM | ||
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 Expert Posts: 8490 Location: Midlands | Nope the new oil rail is just for strength issues and will not effect the block height or head bolt thread depths in any way  If the gasket was a different thickness there would be issues with compression values. Edited by AdrianSi 19/2/2007 8:00 AM | ||
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Veteran Posts: 354 Location: Balaguer-Lerida-Spain | Adrian is that 100% sure ? Not that I doubt it just that before I get a new set for mine I would like to be 100% sure on what parts are needed to do the job. Thanks, Alex | ||
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drive it like its hired | adrian knows his stuff mate, you should be looking at changing the head bolts aswell | ||
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Veteran Posts: 354 Location: Balaguer-Lerida-Spain | OK thanks  | ||
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| "MG Metro 1300" Location: Warwickshire, UK | Is this worth a sticky do you think? Useful piece of information | ||
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drive it like its hired | yes mate, they are all the same 16v or 8v or vvc complete head sets are 16v and 8v because of different manifold gaskets | ||
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international man of mystery Posts: 2484 | Wrote by matt parkers dad | ||
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| "MG Metro 1300" Location: Warwickshire, UK | All headgaskets are the same so yep I just cant help myself can I?  Disclaimer: Note that ive never fitted one of these gaskets Edited by austinMETRO 17/8/2007 1:02 PM | ||
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GTi-R100 Posts: 4825 Location: Carlisle - Cumbria | emiliano - 29/8/2007 5:26 AM hi from Argentina. to put the gasket of freelander in motor 1400 cc of the metr gti I must change the oil rail of land rover? You dont have to no. A lot of people dont and have no troubles | ||
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 Extreme Veteran Posts: 587 Location: boosting the starbo gt through chipping sodbury | hi fellow metro'ers i need 1 of these for my spi gti where can i get 1 from as either a head set or just head gasket dont really wanna use the old style but dont know where to get the new 1s from.please help cheers its a 1990 by the way incase it makes a difference. Edited by kaz_gta 30/5/2010 10:25 AM | ||
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| Regular Posts: 113 | Here's a new MLS gasket I removed from an old 1.8 engine:  It was boiling coolant, but the HG was fine. The block was cracked. Here's the old HG, showing the flexible bead - this hadn't gone, but I changed it when I bent a valve.  | ||
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drive it like its hired | pics of cracked block or gtfo | ||
