Ok. Never has this come up before. I just torqued my head gaskets on my 440 and realized I have some pushrod clearance issues at the casting line on my 906 heads. I need to grind some clearance on my freshly assembled motor. I would rather remove my heads and grind instead of taking a chance on getting metal filings in the motor. The heads would be easier to clean up. Can I reuse these Felpro gaskets? I did not put any sealant down.

Yes you can but check to make sure all the teflon blue is still attached and in good shape. Nice and flat good to go. I always clean my block surface and head surface with laquire thinner right before installation.

I've reused them in 13-1 motors after a seasons use, never had an issue.
Doug

I've often wondered about reusing them on a fired up engine but was always afraid to try it. I built a very nice 360 last year and against the recommendations from Jim Dowel (Racer Brown) reused a cam that I ran for 5 years in my 408. Even with new lifters, inners removed, breaking lube, Lucus break-in oil, and immediate start-up it wiped the cam. Anyway it lasted one race and I still chicken out and didn't reuse the 1008 Felpro gaskets. I wouldn't think twice if the engine was never fired up but in my case since the engine was fired for two hours didn't want to risk the extra work and chance of screwing up another race weekend.

Well after looking closer at my mocked up rockers, they seem to be fitting fine. The old Chrane iron rockers were scuffing the pushrods on this motor. I'm not sure if that is a common problem with those rockers or the local engine "Guru" who built this motor put some together wrong. I know one thing, he did a good job at porting these heads and matching the ports. But when he the sealed the valley pan with orange silicon, he had so much on the ports, all he had was little balls of sealer sticking in the ports! Must be a ford secret I don't know about😳. I'm using Hughes rockers on it now.