Head gasket

[Jack m]

Hey guys. What's the average thickness oh a 3vze head gasket

Thanks
Jack m

 

[zeak]

I did a bit of digging and found this over on the yota tech forums.
OP was "yotafreakshow".

it seems that headgaskets of different brands have varying thicknesses, do they compress down to the same thickness, or do they vary once torqued down?...I have a new Toyota gasket at .053 thickness, and an ITM at .075 (this part # is advertised as oem replacement, they also make an .020 over thickness) why would they make a stock replacement thicker? One would think this would have a dramatic affect on quench and compression (many of you have probably seen my thread concerning these issues) I have searched high and low to find a true piston to head clearance spec because no matter how far your piston sticks up out of the block or not, the headgasket's compressed thickness enters another huge variable that will affect this area. If we're picking over the details of a few thousanth's of an inch and striving for piston to deck height of 0 to +.006 or so and we suddenly have a headgasket that's .010 or .020 different than stock, during a rebuild all the details that went into getting that piston to deck height "perfect" for the sake of compression, detonation, collision clearance etc. have all just gone out the window unless we know the optimal distance the piston should be away from the head at tdc. a piece of clay on a tiny wire through the sparkplug hole would be the only way I can think of to measure that.

While the OP was not incorrect, it did seem like he took the hard road in measureing the piston to deck hight. Just use a strand of thick solder after you torque the head bolts down and turn the engine over by hand. (little trick I heard of while working on two stroke engines.)

 

[Jack m]

Yeah okay thanks. Mine looks quite thick and I have no torque and I'm thinking its because of low compression

 

[zeak]

Are you just looking at it from the side or do you already have it apart?

The 3vze has a rep of being kinda slow when its compleatly stock. (3.slow)
If your looking for more get up and go, you can eather rebuild it better than stock or you can drop in something else. The stock trans dose not seem to like too much power tho. It tends to self-destruct with say, a sbc350 bolted up to it.

 

[Jack m]

I'm looking for more power in a way that my car has no power. I've had two mechanics look at it and they both said it was timing. Then I checked the timing and it was right. It just has no torque. Not a drop of torque.

 

[txclimber]

Yeah okay thanks. Mine looks quite thick and I have no torque and I'm thinking its because of low compression

Auto Zone has loaner Compression testers. You can eliminate or confirm your suspicion for free.