best headgasket for XE engine

[breadstraw]

pretty straight forward question
as it seems my headgasket has blown as i've got a lovely amount of mayo in my header tank
so i'm going to be needing a new one

any recommendations and anything to steer clear of?

[djbrowney]

standard elring

[John]

are you sure it's the gasket and not the head?

[Graeme]

Victor reinz one here yours for a fiver supplied by Autovaux

[breadstraw]

well i've just had the head skimmed and rebuilt as my cambelt slipped and bent 10 valves, so just got it all done at the same time rather than taking it apart again you'd think they'd have tested the head? :/
that's tempting graeme :P
i'll let you know tomorrow after i go have a word with the garage who did all the work and see what they have to say :)
(i'm gonna try and get free stuff for it happening so soon after getting it back, litterally drove it about 50 miles since getting it back)

[Paul]

my betting is that they used the old way of bolting the head down 25NM 90 90 90 instead of the revised version of 25NM 65 65 65

[davidfox280585]

my betting is that they used the old way of bolting the head down 25NM 90 90 90 instead of the revised version of 25NM 65 65 65
damn paul i used the 90 90 90 way:(
seems ok though

[Damo]

my betting is that they used the old way of bolting the head down 25NM 90 90 90 instead of the revised version of 25NM 65 65 65

As pauls said here they may have cracked the head torquing it down too tight as said the later KS head torquing sequence was revised to stop the heads cracking but if the heads been sleeved before use the original torquing sequence.

[blue_peg_16v]

damn paul i used the 90 90 90 way:(
seems ok though

meh mines cos cast so origional is best lol

[MK999]

meh mines cos cast so origional is best lol

Is it the early ones that are coscast? That explains a lot actually lol