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Cylinder head gasket

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Sid
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Cylinder head gasket

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When winter comes I plan to take the LD10 off the road and do a top overhaul. There are two head gaskets advertised on ebay, one is copper at £93 + P&P and the other a composite material with steel edging around the combustion chamber holes at £85 + P&P. What would be the best one or isn't there much difference? ( I mean in performance rather than price) Or would you go for a gasket firm to make one up. Also, I've never used gasket goo on a head before, but I've read some peoples comments where they have.
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Re: Cylinder head gasket

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Syd, the weakness of composite gaskets is they can be inclined to leech oil between the layers. I've had this problem. By far better is the copper gaskets.
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Re: Cylinder head gasket

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Also, if you've done a top end overhaul, presumably you will have had the heads skimmed so no gasket goo either. Use the copper dry (in my opinion).

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Re: Cylinder head gasket

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Thanks for your opinions, so it looks like copper. And yes I'll be having the head skimmed.

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