I know some of you are planning to buy the Hamm's pretty soon, just a word of warning don't use the gaskets they supply. They don't create a very good seal! I followed the torque reccomendations that Hamm tells you, retighten after warmup, retighten after 500 miles blah blah, still didn't help <img src="gr_sad.gif" border="0"> I put the stock gaskets back in, so far so good <img src="gr_grin.gif" border="0">





[ February 09, 2002: Message edited by: 99GMC ]</p>

 

I have heard from day one not to use their gaskets. Most people I know go back with the stock or Felpro's. I plan on useing the stock gaskets for the ASM's I ordered, unless they come with a better one.

 

[quote]Originally posted by Fast4.8:
<strong>I have heard from day one not to use their gaskets. Most people I know go back with the stock or Felpro's. I plan on useing the stock gaskets for the ASM's I ordered, unless they come with a better one.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Yeah, I heard that AFTER I got them <img src="graemlins/fluffy.gif" border="0" alt="[Fluffy]" />

 

I used their gaskets for a while too. I noticed the same thing, above every port, there was a little bit of black from the leaking. I removed those and added back my factory metal gaskets and have had no problems since.

 

ASM's came with the OEM multi-layer metal gaskets. I have yet to see ones that seal better. When I installed headers on the 95' Impala, I also purchased new OEM gaskets...They just don't leak.

Richard