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Re: Cylinder head gasket

To: Opntop@aol.com, 6pack@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Cylinder head gasket
From: Irv Korey <emanteno@attglobal.net>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 22:42:09 -0600
At 11:13 PM 3/5/03 -0500, Opntop@aol.com wrote:

>Thanks to all who responded, I'm studying the options available. To fit a '
>74 cylinder head on an early ( TR250 ) block do "I have to" use the gasket
>with locating grooves or can I use an early gasket? To have the grooves put
>in seems like major surgery. Trying to avoid a triumphless summer.

It is the block, not the head, that determines which head gasket you use. 
If your block has no grooves, you use the early gasket. Remember that the 
74 head uses a different manifold gasket than the earlier heads (pre 73) heads.

Irv Korey
74 TR6 CF22767U
63 TR4 VSCDA Group 2 #58
Highland Park, IL

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