Head gaskets the same?

Roly · Post by **Roly** » Tue May 12, 2015 9:45 am

Going to be changing the head gasket on my front head, its an early bike,
97 imported 2001 so may not
Match what is in a parts catalogue, are the vtr
Head gaskets all the same through 97-2003?
Thanks

thunderbolt · Post by **thunderbolt** » Tue May 12, 2015 11:00 am

Early and late front head gaskets are the same. Same part number.

Roly · Post by **Roly** » Tue May 12, 2015 11:02 am

thunderbolt wrote:Early and late front head gaskets are the same. Same part number.

Thank you

VTRDark · Post by **VTRDark** » Tue May 12, 2015 4:52 pm

There's not much cost difference between an OM and Pattern part. IMO this is one of those cases where it's best to go with the genuine Honda part.

(:-})

lloydie · Post by **lloydie** » Tue May 12, 2015 9:49 pm

Head gaskets , all ways use genuine.
But cheap buy twice

tony.mon · Post by **tony.mon** » Tue May 12, 2015 9:51 pm

Actually I found last week that genuine Honda were cheaper.

Varastorm · Post by **Varastorm** » Fri May 15, 2015 2:54 pm

Does anyone know if the Varadero & VTR Head gaskets are different thicknesses?

Hence the different compression ratios

tony.mon · Post by **tony.mon** » Fri May 15, 2015 7:13 pm

Dunno, but VTR ones are les than 1mm thick.
Have a look at some old one of yours for the xl.

But I think it more likely that the piston is a different design.

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