Why Make a Head Gasket So Narrow?

Posted by Greg Coffin [64.24.135.42] on Thursday, December 04, 2014 at 19:09:57 :

It seems ridiculous to place pairs of cylinders so close together that you would have only 1/4" or so of gasket material between 2 cylinders. I got 18 years out of this head gasket, but that only about 10,000 miles. Why wouldn't Dodge add a 1/4" or so between the pairs of cylinders? I'd love to know.

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• This one is from a 251 - Greg Coffin 12:02:06 12/05/2014
  • or - clueless 09:27:16 12/06/2014
  • too - clueless 09:19:20 12/06/2014
• 230 started as ummm under 200, went up to 201 - Chris Case 08:50:28 12/05/2014
• Re: Why Make a Head Gasket So Narrow? - Bob Thompson 01:26:09 12/05/2014
• Re: Why Make a Head Gasket So Narrow? - Kaegi 21:44:29 12/04/2014
  • seems there ought to be more better - clueless 09:03:10 12/05/2014
  • seems there ought to be more better - clueless 09:01:19 12/05/2014
    • Re: seems there ought to be more better - Kaegi 12:49:12 12/05/2014
      • Re: seems there ought to be more better - clueless 10:11:06 12/06/2014
        • Re: seems there ought to be more better - Kaegi 12:10:18 12/06/2014
    • Re: seems there ought to be more better - clueless 09:09:19 12/05/2014
• Re: Why Make a Head Gasket So Narrow? - Willy-N 20:57:33 12/04/2014
  • Re: Why Make a Head Gasket So Narrow? - Sherman in Idaho 21:01:02 12/04/2014
    • Re: Why Make a Head Gasket So Narrow? - Willy-N 22:00:17 12/04/2014
• Re: Why Make a Head Gasket So Narrow? - Milo in Pa 20:28:47 12/04/2014

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