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*Dv8* · 01-29-05, 12:17 PM

I was one of the two that had the copper ones made up. the first time they didnt seat correctly. you can take a stock gasket(composite) and just slap it on and it works,like a sponge. Copper you have to spray a filmy spray called halo mar. That gives the gasket a spongy film. I had the gaskets made up bu Hussy copper, one of the biggest names for making copper headgaskets. I told them i had an aluminum head and block, but the copper just didnt seat at all and leaked right away.

The second time, i used this stuff called 3 bond the gaskets lasted two months before it started leaking. Both times the gaskets leaked, not blown, but leak in the cyl.

Either the copper wasent soft enough or the imprints that the stock gaskets have, should be made on the copper ones. Hussy did tell me that the copper was the same they use for all other aluminum block and head engines.

~TRu Hybrid

01-29-05, 12:17 PM	#10 (permalink)
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