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Re: Head Gaskets

To: "Doug Mitchell" <dmitchel@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: Head Gaskets
From: doug@dougbraun.com
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 17:38:41 -0400
I have engine FK26193UE.  I have always used the "1500 style" rather than the 
"1300 style" head gaskets.

According to my factory parts book, the K or H does not affect things, it is 
only the numeric part that matters.
The cutoff is number 25000 for both.

If your block's deck has recessed areas around the cylinder bores, you need the 
1500-style gasket,
otherwise you need the 1300-style.  The 1500-style gasket has thicker metal 
rings round
the cylinder holes to fit in the recesses of the deck.  If you put such a 
gasket on an older flat-deck
1300 engine, I'm sure something would leak!

Doug Braun
'72 Spit

At 05:03 PM 7/5/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>Spitted ones,
>
>Does anyone know if the head gasket for the 1500 engine is the
>same one as the one for the FK series engines? I went to the
>Rimmer Bros website and they list the same gasket for the 1500
>and the FH series starting with 25001. Where does the FK series
>fit in? I have engine number FK423UE.





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