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Purdy Swoft · 05-21-2013, 10:18 AM

I've only had one head gasket failure in over fifty years. The gasket that failed was a cheap steel clad gasket from J.C. Whitney. The gasket burned in two in the narrow area between the one and two cylinders. This happened with an original head after about 6 years and caused compression loss on the front two cylinders . I've ran high compression heads (5.9) since the mid ninties with copper clad Fel Pro gaskets with NO problems. I have ran my model A's with full advance at speed for over fifty years with NO bearing or head gasket problenms. There is a lot of confusion about the use of the spark lever and there is NO help for those that constantly fiddle with the spark lever.

05-21-2013, 10:18 AM	#5
Purdy Swoft Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Alabama Posts: 8,099	Re: Do high compression heads eat head gaskets? I've only had one head gasket failure in over fifty years. The gasket that failed was a cheap steel clad gasket from J.C. Whitney. The gasket burned in two in the narrow area between the one and two cylinders. This happened with an original head after about 6 years and caused compression loss on the front two cylinders . I've ran high compression heads (5.9) since the mid ninties with copper clad Fel Pro gaskets with NO problems. I have ran my model A's with full advance at speed for over fifty years with NO bearing or head gasket problenms. There is a lot of confusion about the use of the spark lever and there is NO help for those that constantly fiddle with the spark lever.