As I get ready to replace my head gasket, does anyone have a recommendation for the best set to get? A brand or place to get a good set that I won't have to replace again for another 100k or so, hopefully more? I think the thing I'm worried about most is replacing this thing and then it blowing again in another 20k so I wanna make sure I go with the good stuff. Thanks in advance

 

Felpro

 

A morality tale on XJs:

So after reading a lot on here and talking with some mechanically minded people I diagnosed my Jeep with a blown head gasket and started on replacing it. Got the gasket set and all, took off the head and whooops, the head gasket wasn't blown! Turns out that the T-stat was blown out and the radiator system was in rough shape which was causing head gasket like symptoms. Moral of the story is, do the compression tests before you take anything apart!

I'm not too upset about it though, my engine has 180k so it was going to happen eventually, and a full tune up with new gaskets all around along with a thorough cleaning can't hurt. I shouldn't have to do a whole lot of major maintnence now for quite a while and hopefully he will be running like a champ when I fire him back up today.