The best gasket in the world won’t seal worth a hoot if your mating surfaces aren’t properly cleaned and prepared beforehand. But, while a lot of how-tos out there include “surface prep” as a critical step, they rarely go into much detail on the actual cleaning and surface-prep process. That’s why we liked this video
To ensure the best seal possible, your cylinder head mating surfaces must be perfectly flat—or, at least within the flatness specced by the manufacturer. But testing your cylinder head surface isn’t as simple as just laying a flatedge across the head. The gasket gurus at Fel-Pro put together a good video that shows you exactly
Q: What is the proper intake gasket installation sequence for an aluminum intake on a Chrysler 440 engine? Should it be gasket, then valley pan, another gasket, and then manifold? The Fel-Pro gasket set I have has four facing pieces, but the full gasket set only has two intake gaskets and the valley pan. If
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