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Engine Specific Info and Questions => IDI Engine => Topic started by: myke_w on April 22, 2006, 02:48:07 am

Title: What metal headgasket for 1.6 mechanical
Post by: myke_w on April 22, 2006, 02:48:07 am

I've heard all about the metal head gaskets being used on onlder motors, but what's the original application? In other words which one is it?

Title: What metal headgasket for 1.6 mechanical
Post by: 935racer on April 22, 2006, 08:58:32 am

I still use the 1.9td headgaskets and I have a spare that I have been hacking pieces of the metal layers out of and grafting them into the ones I install on the solid lifter motors.

Title: What metal headgasket for 1.6 mechanical
Post by: myke_w on May 01, 2006, 10:36:00 am

is the 1.9 HG hydraulic? how does that work?

Title: What metal headgasket for 1.6 mechanical
Post by: RabbitJockey on May 01, 2006, 10:50:12 am

i thought all 1.9's are hydraulic

Title: What metal headgasket for 1.6 mechanical
Post by: jtanguay on May 02, 2006, 09:39:13 am

Quote from: Trev0rbr

i thought all 1.9's are hydraulic

correct 1986 was the change over year - halfway through I believe.

935 racer just said that he uses parts of a metal head gasket to graft to make the metal HG work on the solid lifter motor.

Title: What metal headgasket for 1.6 mechanical
Post by: dennis m king on May 07, 2006, 05:48:26 pm

can't you guys get a 3 hole or what ever your piston protrusion equils on the heas gasket chart? i just went through this on my 83 td 1.6 and ended up getting a 3 hole gasket from autozone.