Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Defective New 3.2 Head gaskets?

[Michael James (cavallino_rapante]

Newer Elring issue, Dave Helms has spoken about this at-length with 355 and F-40 gaskets being bad 'out-of-the-box'.  He suggests a pressure-check before engine final-assembly.

 

M

--- On Sat, 9/25/10, rick Baumgartner <rickwr250 [at] hotmail.com> wrote:

From: rick Baumgartner <rickwr250 [at] hotmail.com>
Subject: [Ferrari] Defective New 3.2 Head gaskets?
To: "Michael" <Cavallino_Rapante [at] yahoo.com>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Date: Saturday, September 25, 2010, 1:47 AM

Hey Boys,
Anyone ever heard of bad replacement head gaskets? My mechanic has put two sets of new head gaskets on my 3.2 Mondial and both sets leaked during a coolant pressure test. We checked the heads for warpage and they were great.   I'm hearing from him and another mechanic that the manufacturer has either changed some specs or bad quality control and this is becoming more of a problem over the last year or so. One mechanic tells me he has had an F40 in his shop for over 2 years trying to get this head gasket issue fixed with the manufacturer. It apparently effects a few different models so far.
Now what does a guy do? Any suggestions? This is totally rediculous. I want my car back already!
 
Thanks!
 
Rick
  

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