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<p><b>rsc writes: </b></p>

<p>While installing a new head gasket, I decided to install the new exhaust manifold gasket supplied in the HG gasket / seals kit. I was quite surprised that there was no original manifold gasket - the "bare" cast iron manifold was bolted directly to the alloy head. I can't imagine this is normal, as the Chrysler shop manual specifies a gasket, and a gasket is supplied in the kit.</p>

<p>Is this a case of sleepy a UAW, or did Chrysler engineers figure out a way to defy rules of modern metallurgy?</p>

<p><b>Jim Waleke writes: </b></p>

<p>The non-export, non-TLEV SOHC motors do not use exhaust manifold gaskets. The DOHC motors do use them. If you are ordering a SOHC upper gasket kit, that is why they are shipped without them.</p>

<p>With the exceptions I mentioned above, there should be no SOHC exhaust manifold gaskets for model years 1995-1999. I researched this extensively when I bought my first upper gasket kit years ago. The DOHC upper gasket kits include exhaust manifold gaskets and they were also used in production.</p>

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