® SOHC four Honda head gaskets


At some point in your SOHC four Honda's history, it will need its head gasket replaced.

This is necessary not because the gasket is faulty, though most aftermarket ones are. Nor is it because the cylinder or cylinder head are warped. It is simply because of a system of channeling oil through the gasket that Honda carried over from their singles and twins and which right after the SOHC era Honda disontinued and on subsequent models ran the oil line externally.


Last updated October 2022
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