I am currently building motor for my truck. I'm upgrading to 5.9l V8.
Ready to put the heads back on, but I have a question re: head gasket cooling ports.
I just got set of Fel-Pro Head gaskets. It looks like some of the coolant ports are blocked off between the block and the head. I don't have the old gaskets to compare it to.
Is this correct? Should some of the coolant ways be blocked off with the head gasket??
Or, should I cut additional openings in new gaskets??
They are correct gaskets.
Thanks

 

Your head gaskets should not block off any of the coolant passages that I remember but I can go out to my garage tomorrow and put a head gasket on my block and take a picture.

 

Yes, the gasket covers some of the coolant ports. I remember thinking that was odd when I did mine late last year.

 

That is exactly what I thought!
I took a nice sharp step drill and drill out holes in the gasket in the place where the cooling ports meet.
Just wondering why it was blocked off in the first place.

 

was mistaken. The blocked off coolant ports were on my Hughes F1 intake NOT on the head gaskets.

What head gasket did you use?

I used the Felpro 519 SD and didn't notice any blocked off ports.

 

A warning: once you mount your heads and passed the gasket issue, make sure to add water to the radiator connect your water hoses of course and add pressure. If their is a leak at least your not going to go through this: https://dodgeforum.com/forum/4th-gen...ad-gasket.html

Hope you have an awesome build!!!