FELPRO 1043 head gasket.

[Randy Wells]

Originally Posted by Rich Biebel

Lay the gaskets on the block dowel pins. If the sealing ring hangs into the bore at all I wouldn’t use them.

Put dowel pins in the heads and lay the gasket on the pins.
See how it fits the chamber shape.

That should be all you need to do to see if they can be used.

Rich,

I did that, the gasket clears the bore and the combustion chamber, the fire ring on the 1043 is pre-compressed for aluminum heads. Maybe that is the issue with steel on steel. The fire ring is not as wide as a 1003 gasket. I think I will order a set of Cometic gaskets just to be on the safe side.

Thanks

Randy Wells
I/S 5628