im looking to buy a head gasket for my turbo holden 6 either copper or mls they are not much difference in price which way would be the beast head sealant
head gasket
Started by
lawn bowls
, Jul 21 2019 06:02 PM
6 replies to this topic
#1
lawn bowls
-
- Members
-
- 262 posts
Forum Fan
- Location:queensland
- Car:72 lj 4 door
- Joined: 17-March 17
Posted 21 July 2019 - 06:02 PM
#2
UCgazman
-
- Members
-
- 1,342 posts
UC's FTW!
- Name:Garth
- Location:Perth
- Car:UC S̶u̶n̶b̶i̶r̶d̶ 5000!
- Joined: 04-August 11
Posted 22 July 2019 - 12:22 AM
Hylomar for copper, didn't think sealant was necessary for mls?
#3
_Drag lc_
_Drag lc_
-
- Guests
Posted 22 July 2019 - 11:37 AM
i have found that using copper coat on the copper gasket seems to give good results i hav not used hylomar but im guessing if applied correctly it would be fine aswell.
#4
lawn bowls
-
- Members
-
- 262 posts
Forum Fan
- Location:queensland
- Car:72 lj 4 door
- Joined: 17-March 17
Posted 22 July 2019 - 06:46 PM
yes i have used hylomar on copper head gasket no leaks
#5
caterham2
-
- Members
-
- 348 posts
Forum Fan
- Location:Mansfield North East Victoria not the other one in QLD
- Car:Ford Focus RS AWD Gone over to the dark side .. Mercedes-Benz SLK350 Ford Cortina 2 door MK1 Twin Cam
- Joined: 02-February 10
Posted 22 July 2019 - 10:38 PM
I was told by a guy in Research Victoria that used to make "one off" copper and copper composition head gaskets for historic cars to use Silverfrost spraypaint on the one he made for my Lotus Twin Cam engine. Did this, had no issues. He also told me that Hylomar that is sold as invented by Rolls Royce back in day dot has fallen out of favour as after a while it develops little tracks through it and leaks are the result. FWIW..................
#6
Com_VC
-
- Members
-
- 411 posts
Forum Fan
- Joined: 09-January 06
Posted 27 July 2019 - 02:11 PM
Are you planning to o ring the block or head if you use a copper gasket?
#7
LC-GTR-1969
View Garage
-
- Members
-
- 1,162 posts
Shed tinkerer
- Location:New South Wales
- Car:Which one?
- Joined: 09-March 14
View Garage
Posted 28 July 2019 - 08:23 AM
I ran copper gasket, with an o-ringed head and receiver grooves in the block on my 202 for years. Was fine, except for some slight drooling of coolant from corner of head... I ran some chemiweld through it and this stopped... This was for a nitrous setup... These days I would just go MLS though unless very high boost etc was planned.
0 user(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users
