Help!!!how The Hell Do I Reuse These Cometics?
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Help!!!how The Hell Do I Reuse These Cometics? Okay my heads are ready to be bolted back on(just finished flycutting) and I was going to reuse my Cometics. BUT how do I clean them-it seems like there is oil and coolant between the 3 layers. I brake clean the front and back but when i wipe them down more guck comes out from between them?How the hell am I supposed to keep them clean and then spray some copper sealant if they are wet? Do I pop out the rivets and take them apart then clean them? I knew I should of just bought new ones 
. HELP!!!!
. HELP!!!! If you can't get all the crap off I'd get a new set. If you don't wanna spend the money on cometics again, you could pick up a set of stock MLS but that'd lower your compression a bit (seeing as how you were running .040's... probably one of the reasons you wanted to flycut as well).
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I ended up using the factory MLS gaskets-they actually miced out at .051 and the cometics miced at .043. The cometics looked good but there was so much stuff between the layers-the only way to get it out would have been to remove the rivits and clean each shim-I wan't prepared to do that so I just left them and installed the MLS.
Originally Posted by 98TA_vert
I belive the head gaskets are the only gasket on a LS1 that cant be reused. I would just buy a new set for piece of mind.
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