Head gasket thickness of early -86 L98 with iron heads?

Finn

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Hello.

I'm planning a minor project for my -86 and to be able to choose the heads I would need to know exactly what the compressed thickness of the original head gaskets has been with early -86 L98 with 462624 iron heads?

I have seen 0.015" mentioned on the net but I need to have that confirmed. Does anyone of you possess literature that would have this information, please?
 
Yes, steel shims w/ rubber coating. You can still get them, or at least similar ones.

The Fel-Pro 1094 are about the thinnest you can get at .015 but you'd better have a fresh deck, straight and the right coarseness. GMPP has a similar gasket but it's almost twice as thick @ .028
 
Danke schön. I just might get somewhere with this project. Or not. :beer:
 
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