Head Gasket?

stykthyn

I want to measure mine. It doesn't look that tall.

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That is a huge problem. The front needs to be at the front so those cooling passages are wide open.

 

rangerboy101

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That's what I was thinking. The only difference between the left and right sides are that the left side blocks off the front cooling passages and the right side would block off the rear cooling passages.

 

rangerboy101

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Head Gasket:

Block:


See the pattern difference? See how it's going to block off one set of cooling passages at the end of the block?

 

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Any definite answer on if it will be ok or not? Would really like to get this thing together today. It's blocking passages on the front of the other side. What makes the other side any different?

 

rangerboy101

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Talked to people at Autozone and looked at all of their gaskets which were all marked the same. I just went ahead and installed it.

 

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Why didn't you just remove it and istall it the correct way? You wouldn't have ruined it until it was heat cycled once.

 

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It was installed the correct way on the drivers side. I went to Autozone and looked at like 10 Fel-Pro 9333's and they were all marked the exact same.

 

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The "FRONT" always goes to the front, no matter what side of the engine it goes on. The water passages in the lower intake manifold take care of routing the water in the correct fashion.

 

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Even if it means flipping the gasket over?

 

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rangerboy101 said:

Even if it means flipping the gasket over?

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YES.

Fel-Pro marked them that way to insure that the gaskets get installed correctly. There is no difference between the RH gasket and the LH gasket, there is only one type of gasket.
There is no "This side up" either, only "Front" that always goes to the front.

 

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Looks like I need to do some disassembling real quick then.

 

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Pulled the head and flipped the gasket real quick. Here's how she sits as of now:

I managed to lose one of my intake bolts so I'll be ordering another one from ARP tomorrow morning and then I can go ahead and finish everything up.

 

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Extra plug? What could it go to?

 

stykthyn

I want to measure mine. It doesn't look that tall.

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#54

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Canister purge solenoid. Just go to the hardware store and get another bolt the same size. No n eed to wait for a new one.