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Engine basics => Engine set up tips => Topic started by: fernando torres on November 21, 2006, 05:26:57 AM

Title: Head Gasket?
Post by: fernando torres on November 21, 2006, 05:26:57 AM

I removed the cyllinder head on a 40th anniversary Fox 35. There was no head gasket. Is that ok? or should it have one.

Title: Re: Head Gasket?
Post by: Ralph Wenzel (d) on November 21, 2006, 06:00:43 AM

There really should be a head gasket. Because the Fox gasket is dead-soft aluminum, it sometimes isn't obvious that there is one. Sometimes I find it necessary to use a straight pin to "pick at" the edge of the gasket from one of the bolt holes in the head.

Do this gently, or have a spare gasket on hand.

Title: Re: Head Gasket?
Post by: phil c on November 21, 2006, 07:30:30 PM

The Fox gaskets are so soft that you don't really have to worry about damaging them, unless you really tear notches in it or scrunch it up into a ball.  Flatten it out a bit and the head will squish it right down when it is reinstalled.