head gasket... my pointers
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http://www.summitracing.com/parts/he...ake/land-rover
They bolt to the manifold but you will have to modify below for the y-pipe.
They bolt to the manifold but you will have to modify below for the y-pipe.
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Hear is one of the threads about the headers.
https://landroverforums.com/forum/he...headers-43789/
https://landroverforums.com/forum/he...headers-43789/
some shots fired on that thread, lol. The summit ones are cheap, I didn't think they were 200$, that last ones I checked out where 400$. I booked marked those for future use.
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They have another set that are ceramic coated for $500.00 and are shorty's.
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/hed-39800
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/hed-39800
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The most challenging part of the job, for me, was that stupid little bolt at the back of the driver side head that holds the wire harness. I think I dropped it nine times, and I eventually lost it and had to come up with something else. I didn't really take the time to label all my stuff when I took it off everything pretty much only fits in one spot, but that is good advice if you have the time to do it.
On my car the cable outer protection was a congealed blob of plastic and I had to cut back the outer enough to check all the cables inside were unharmed. Then I zip tied a new section of outer protection and decided against fitting it back to the head. I will contrive a way to fix it off the bulkhead... IMHO wires and hot cylinder heads don't mix well.
But my major pain is the gasket clamps on the inlet manifold where the screw has to line up with the clamp, the gasket, the rubber gasket seals, and the threaded hole in the block... particularly the one at the rear of the engine and the fact that the clamp does not follow the engine profile too well.
Fitting that screw needs the patience of a Saint and the arms of a Gorilla.
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