Hello people, just restoring a fiero that hasn't been running in around 24 years. Today I removed the rocker arms, push rods, and the hydraulic lifters. I am going to clean and oil everything up with new oil before installation.

Now the question: Should I go further and change the head gasket too. I see it is alot more work because I have to remove the exhaust manifold, and the one in the back looks hard to do. Has anyone around here experience with head gasket, does age affect them? The car has around 66k miles on it, but it might still be the first gasket. No I did not star the car before to see if it has any problem with the gasket.

Id be glad to hear any answer.

Why pull the head gaskets; do you have a problem? If not - don't!

To me, IF you're removing the heads; pull the head and the exhaust manifold as one part, and then remove the manifolds from the heads on the bench.

And in my world, I always send my heads out to get them re-built with new valves....

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Original Owner of a Silver '88 GT
Under 'Production Refurbishment' @ 136k Miles

quote Originally posted by Vintage-Nut: Why pull the head gaskets; do you have a problem? If not - don't! To me, IF you're removing the heads; pull the head and the exhaust manifold as one part, and then remove the manifolds from the heads on the bench. And in my world, I always send my heads out to get them re-built with new valves....

Hello, I don't know. Some say don't do it no need, others say do it because you already have disassembled everything. As I mentioned, I don't know if age is affecting a head gasket...

I will leave them for now.

Thanks for the reply

I changed my dukes headgasket. I was blessed with good non rusty bolts and the job was a breeze. But if its not broken don't fix it.

quote Originally posted by Dukesterpro: I changed my dukes headgasket. I was blessed with good non rusty bolts and the job was a breeze. But if its not broken don't fix it.

Thank you, I'll only be able to tell that when I have assembled everything back together and start my fiero for the first time in 24 years, if it's bad, I'll have to disassemble everything again haha