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hey all.. just contemplating weather to re use a MHG on a little project car has been running with it.. however i think a valve is stuck open causing complete loss of compression on a cylinder

motor is still together.. only couple hundred k's or so since it was put back together with the new mhg.. its a tomei 1.2mm MHG too if that makes any difference..

wat do people think

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I reused my cometic.

Unsure if its the best way but it appears to have worked well.

Cleaned the gasket with gasket stripper and scrubbed with some green scourer thing that I forget the name off (too late). Some of the vitron? coating came off.

I Let it dry and realised bits of gunk had got in between the layers so I removed the 2 rivets holding the gasket together and carefully cleaned each layer.

Each layer then copped a light coat of Hylomar

I put it together carefully, Then gave the 2 faces a coat of Hylomar. All up using 1 full large can of Hylomar.

Its been fine since. :O

Unless your on a super tight budget I'd simply grab another headgasket. They can be sourced for $300 ish if your prepared to wait a little.

Or there's the Cometic/ACL you can use. 'Some' have issues with them leaking; how I have no idea; I'm assuming the block and head finish wasn't finished to the specs required by cometic.

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