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How many kilometres has your AU gasket on E series done? Poll ended at Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:49 pm
0-100,000 and still going 56%  56%  [ 9 ]
100,000 - 200,000 and still going 19%  19%  [ 3 ]
200,000 - 300,000 and still going 6%  6%  [ 1 ]
300,000 - 400,000 and still going 6%  6%  [ 1 ]
Failed between 0-50,000 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Failed between 50,000 - 100,000 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Failed between 100,000 - 150,000 6%  6%  [ 1 ]
Failed between 150,000 - 200,000 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Failed between 200,000 - 250,000 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Failed between 250,000 - 300,000 6%  6%  [ 1 ]
Total votes : 16

 

 
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smithy_1
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:49 pm 
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I have heard mostly good things about doing this, but occasionally there is a bad word.
There have been comments based on the surface flatness not being smooth enough on the E series for the AU gasket to properly work.

So I thought a poll would be a good idea to see how they go.

Please only enter if you used new headbolts, AU gasket, and had the head shaved, and use good quality coolant always topped up etc...., as it would be nice to exclude premature failures due to other factors.

 

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Cy4NiD3
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 5:38 pm 
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Go the original EF head gasket :D.... 226,000 and still going strong and my car gets a thrashing lol
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:33 pm 
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my ef manaul got over 290km out of it i put and au one and its great i have a mate with a car with 400km on it withe the oraginal gasket on it

 

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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:06 pm 
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I have the full service history of my hybrid motor and its yet to do a head gasket. 260,000kms and still going.

Do you people have the full service history to know if its been done? Not many people have done 400,000kms on a car they brought new...

 

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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:08 pm 
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I might be wrong but i think the EL hybrid have the AU head gasket as standard on them anyway

 

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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:45 pm 
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GeZza200 wrote:
I might be wrong but i think the EL hybrid have the AU head gasket as standard on them anyway


I pulled the head of my hybrid after 320k klms and still had the original composite gasket on it

 

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