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Originally Posted by Rudolph

Hello on my 41 Mercury engine I got rebuilt at a shop, heads and block mechined, weeped coolent through the head gaskets fiber "best gasket copper sandwich gaskets" and I tried to fix it by fitting falpro gaskets witch fixed it but then I had a blowing head gasket probably from excessive use of copper spray? even when I was told not to.

Where I live on the other side of the world its hard and very
expensive to get things from the USA but I found a good suply of NOS asbestos gasket made for Ford by some American asbestos company, they look nice with rings around the water passages and steel fire rings. He says he sells heaps of them and they dont give any problems

Should I give them a light copper spray to help things? I refuse to grease them.

I put an old 1938 motor together that had a crack down the middel of the 3 water holes with fiber gaskets and copper spray and it was mint, it seems everyone has a way they like to do i, I just don't want to be cleaning off asbestos fiber mess from my engine a few days later.

I have seen some very ugly rough looking modern head gasket for flatheads and this includes the Fal-pro one size fits all 39-48 221" - 239" gaskets,