cometic head gasket help

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87pony

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May sound like a dumb question, and an easy one to answer, is there a passenger and a driver side head gasket or is it just the same gasket.
The reason I ask is because I know you are supposed to install the head gasket where it says "FRONT" to the front of the engine, but one of the gaskets you will not be able to read the "FRONT" because it will have to be facing the block and not the head to be toward the front of the engine. Been a while since I have changed gaskets. thanks

 

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From what I've seen, cometic gaskets have specific drivers/passenger side head gaskets...but I guess that could depend on the brand and how they want you compressing them and stuff???

 

faststang90

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1 u cant read

i u cant read.

 

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so there is just one for both sides?

 

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Yes, head gaskets are not side-dependent. As long as the end that says "front" is toward the front, you should be golden.

 

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awesome, Would hate to put this thing together, get my turbo on and find out something dumb that that hindered me.

 

KamiKaziDK

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regular head gaskets no.....Cometic....I wouldn't take that advice. Trick flow has different part numbers for the left and ride side

 

faststang90

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they only have 1 size one part number

Domestic Auto
i looked at trick fow has 1 part # for a 302 but the 4.6 has 2 gaskets

 

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Ahhhh, yeah yeah...you're right. My ignorance for thinking that because my summit magazine didn't specify 5.0 or 4.6 that it was automatically 5.0 gaskets. I just hopped on trick flow to confirm too So yeah....they both say front because you flip one over ....and I'm an ass

 

faststang90

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they just cost to much to

they just cost to much to mess up on one. when i did mine i sprayed this stuff on them to help reuse them if u had to pull them off. ran the motor got it up to temp and retq the heads back