drewwrxrogers

I am just about ready to start the h/c swap. I have my CNC heads, 7.4 pushrods, Custom grind 235-240-600-609 111.5 lobe cam, valves, and 500rwp rated head gasket kit. I still need to buy a patriot spring kit and a head bolt kit as well as a timming chain. Since my car has such low miles "25k" I am just going to use the stock lifters and port the stock oil pump. I have heard that you can reuse about every gasket except the headgasket On a budget build....

Just checking to make sure that other people have done this with a low miles build. Also feel free to let me know if there is anything you think I am missing for my h/c swap.

Sigforty

The only gaskets I reuse are intake, and the valve cover.

drewwrxrogers

Thanks! So basically I would need to buy the headgaskets and what else?

Sigforty

I would replace the timing chain cover gasket as well. People like thunder sell a cam swap gasket kit. I would use everything in it.

socmguy

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You'll also need a crank bolt and oil pump O ring.

drewwrxrogers

^thanks....couple little things that could hold me up if I didnt know about them. Anything else guys?

180ls1

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do a search there are lots of threads on this but i know there are a ton of people who reuse all the gaskets when they do a cam swap.

Predator

Front seal.

Mr. Brett

iTrader: (13)

Water pump gaskets

ramairracer

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water pump gaskets
coolant crossovers gaskets
front cover gasket with a dab of sealer at both corners at the oil pan
front cover senter seal
head gasket and bolts
if the header gaskets look ok reuse it bad replace those too
i like said above always reuse the valve cover and intake gaskets

regency

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at 25K miles i wouldnt buy any other gaskets than headgaskets!!! hell i had bought my motor that sat for 6 years in a shop and used all the original gaskets except headgaskets and i havnt had any leaks 35K on the motor later. i reused my stock metal exhaust gaskets too.

dz999

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I've been tempted to reuse most of gaskets and have reused the intake and valve cover (couldn't get the new valve cover gaskets to stay on), but when you think about all the time it takes to disassemble and reassemble it just doesn't seem worth it to me. I would buy new gaskets and not have to worry about leaks.

Bill Bowling

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Just buy a gasket kit and replaced them all. If not you could be tearing it all back down again. I think the only ones I used again were the value cover gaskets. Those are easy to replaced if you had one leak.

Good luck.
Bill

vettenuts

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Your call, I would personally replace all as tearing it down again to save a few dollars when you spent so much on the rest of it is false economy. I would also pick up an extra (maybe two) oil pump o-rings. They are cheap and the one part that you can damage during installation. If its a Sunday it will sure hold you up for a while as well.

98Camarod

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You can reuse the valve cover and intake gaskets. Make sure you get the high temperature loctite cause you have to do all of this over again and buy new parts.

jocko

not hijacking but similar topic,i got the small crank woble and was wondering if the underdrive crank pulley solves the issue or if it is something else causing it,i'm fairly new to ls1 since it was all 5.0 mustangs before that and these motors are way different.

98Camarod

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Is the motor stock? Its possible that the balancer is bad. There is a rubber ring that goes around it. If that is removed or destroyed that could be your problem. So another balancer or would fix you right up.

tnmotown

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i would just buy that head/cam gasket package from TSP. Probably what im going to do..

drewwrxrogers

going to reuse everything but the headgaskets.

01Z28M6

Please do us all a favor and follow up on how you make out doing it this way.

The kit I bought came will all the gaskets other than valve cover. Somehow I pinched one of the water pump gaskets and had to pull it off later.

Just a thought; but where you can use RTV with the old gasket, like around the timing chain cover might give you a little more protection.