Head gasket - Yes or No?

[muley]

So, I'm halfway through the turbo and cambelt job and it suddenly struck me - should I change the head gasket?. At this stage I've still got the crank pulley off and the exhaust manifold is off.

Car has 93,000 on the clock and a patchy history.

What does the LEC massive think - should I do the head gasket as well while I'm here ?

I am already going to replace the fans and hoses btw.

[homer simpson voice]
Lousy project creep
[/home simpson voice]

Jim

[Enright]

No. In fact HELL no! You don't want to disturb that lot if you don't have to.
That's one job where if it ain't broke you don't want to try fixing it - leave well alone.

[Doc Fizzix]

No. In fact HELL no! You don't want to disturb that lot if you don't have to.
That's one job where if it ain't broke you don't want to try fixing it - leave well alone.

There is an old saying that I have learned over and over again and in moments of weakness I screw-up again and forget what I have learned:

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

[Monty]

Jim, thats a bloody good question.

and i`d tend to side on the Yes, thats if your doing it your self and it will only cost you the price off the Head gasket

The reason i say this is that i believe there`s many Elans out there that have a HG failing and don`t know it, mine only showed up when i started doing trackdays and only then i only got a slight rise in coolant temp but it caused my Rad to leak

It`s a tough decision.