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EA81T Head Gasket recommendations?

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So my 84 wagon turbo is foaming up the radiator and running hotter. I'm 80 percent that its head gaskets compression leaking into the cooling system. What is the best head gasket that has been used with good results? I've seen MLs (MULTI LAYER STEEL) head gaskets for newer subaru's but not for the old gens. Or should I just go with the Felpro permatorque head gasket?

  • 3 weeks later...

Felpro is what everybody is using these days, because you don't have to keep retorquing the head bolts.

On 10/3/2022 at 4:35 AM, scoobydube said:

Felpro is what everybody is using these days, because you don't have to keep retorquing the head bolts.

i tried to explain this no need to retorque to my long serving machine shop owner and got his opinion, which was to retorque anyway. Food for thought

I would do the factory procedure regardless of what gasket is used.  It's not as if Fel-Pro knows something about the EA81 that FHI engineers didn't.

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