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Old 08-21-2012, 11:29 PM
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having my head rebuilt and just relized none of the water jackets are cut out on the driver side of the head gasket?? is this normal?
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Assuming you have a 4.0 (do you?), it should look like this:
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ya thats it but the water jackets on one side of the engine are blocked.
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Make sure "front" is front and make sure you have the proper side up.
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If you are referring to those sorta-triangle shaped passages, those are supposed to be blocked by the gasket to keep the water temp across the head more uniform.
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If you are referring to those sorta-triangle shaped passages, those are supposed to be blocked by the gasket to keep the water temp across the head more uniform.
Ya thats what i was talking about. Didnt make sense to me. I read some guy cut them out and it made it run alot cooler.
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