Head gasket material

Planning to replace head gasket over Christmas holiday, lot of creamy white stuff in breather etc but not losing that much water. Wondering what is better – copper or fibre gasket material? Appreciate any thoughts.

its condensation - take it on a nice long run.

put a turner head on it while your at it...


just so happens i'm selling one...

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Not necessarily the head gasket, try cleaning the crankcase breather pipes.
Copper is by far better than assy or whatever its made from nowadays, I've used them on race engines and never had one fail.

Copper is the best head gasket you can get, My ex fatherinlaw (god rest his soul) used to say he wold always reuse a copper head gasket as long as it wasnt damaged he used to boil it to sweat it back in to shape,

Is it petrol or diesel ?

Thanks for your comments, it's petrol, and does low mileage. Replaced coolant and now topped up so will be monitoring levels closely. Probably a good idea to change all the gaskets as appears oil weeping from rocker cover. Complete gasket set for a tenner from gaskets direct seems good deal

As its petrol the copper will be OK,diesel you need the steel/composite one.
Ten quids worth of gasket set sounds too cheap,with things like that a decent Payen or Elring set is a better deal - do it once,do it properly.

Finally got round to replacing head gasket and all upper gaskets, hard work but engine running sweetly now. Head gasket blown in two places and all mayo removed and everything cleaned up