Head gasket question

Hi folks ,  I’m changing the cylinder head on my g60 engine and I’ve ordered the gasket and new bolts and they’ll arrive whenever My question is did I need to fit a new gasket ? The exhaust manifold bolts wouldn’t tighten ,threads are gone on two of them and I had a spare ported and polished head . So I’m fitting that . Thanks folks


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Head gaskets cannot be refitted. Always fit a new one. This is because they are considered in the torque setting on the head bolts as it compresses/deforms to fire the specific engine. Don’t worry you have not wasted any money


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Cheers man, it was more curiosity than anything else . What’s another €100 in the grand scheme of things . Maybe you could answer another head gasket question ? I took the head from another spare engine I had which has a 2litre AAC block from transporter. I had planned on fitting it  but I just assembled it and it was on the engine stand. Now I bought a new head gasket and bearings etc . Would I be able to reuse that h/g ? The engine was never used / started up. Thanks again


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Issue is risk. It might work but what the cost of starting it up and getting low compression, oil leak or pressurised earlier system etc. Time and fluids + head bolts again not worth the risk.


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