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[Enceladus]

What make was the gasket you ended up using?
Was it the later multi-layer type with no EGR ports?

[Webby the Bear]

Thanks men much appreciated 🥰👍👍👍

I ended up using a BGA one. Not happy about the brand or the type (graphite one with silver coating) but I needed the motor back on the road ASAP and was all I could get quick. Also now the manifold blow has gone I can now hear a dead lifter more clearly. Honestly it never stops. Oh and the drivers side has a small blow on start up but goes after few seconds.

Happy for now but as usual more shit to do in future. And that drivers side looks even more painful with fekking great coolant pipe running parallel with the manifold 😩😩😩

A job for next year I think 👌

[Nick W]

Thanks men much appreciated 🥰👍👍👍

I ended up using a BGA one. Not happy about the brand or the type (graphite one with silver coating) but I needed the motor back on the road ASAP and was all I could get quick. Also now the manifold blow has gone I can now hear a dead lifter more clearly. Honestly it never stops. Oh and the drivers side has a small blow on start up but goes after few seconds.

Happy for now but as usual more shit to do in future. And that drivers side looks even more painful with fekking great coolant pipe running parallel with the manifold 😩😩😩

A job for next year I think 👌

Coolant pipe is easily*** removed. You do that before lifting the head with the exhaust manifold still attached.




*** that's easily in that the fiddly bits have nothing to do with the exhaust manifold

[Webby the Bear]

So head has to come off for drivers side? 🤦‍♂️

[Nick W]

So head has to come off for drivers side? 🤦‍♂️

No. It's probably easier than the passenger side due to there being a lot less stuff in the way.


I changed my exhaust manifolds as part of the head gasket job. To do that, I removed and refitted the heads with the manifolds fitted to them.


I did remove the coolant rail before lifting the head, because it was in the way of something else I needed to undo. But I don't remember what that was

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

From memory, as its been a while - removing the big shiny coolant pipe isnt difficult. Unbolt support bracket, then possibly with the help of a mirror, undo the two bolts at the rear. Job done.
Then, as nick says, theres less stuff to get in the way, so that fanimold should be easier than the other one.