stick with felpro gaskets. For me it was because the car had other issues. it served me well but it was showing it's age. I had 285000 on the 3100 engine. Also I had a bad intake bolt. It was stripped and I had to drill it out. I think that contributed to the replacement gasket going bad.

 

Trying to determine if Felpro gaskets went bad to add to my knowledge base since we recommend them here but in this case the brand doesn’t matter because there are other issues.


George

 

Nope. Still recommend the felpros. Just trying to back up that with proper attention a vehicle CAN be saved after the LIM gasket goes bad. I'm not 100% sure WHAT actually went wrong the second time. But it was I think March 2005 when the grand am gave up the ghost. It had messed up alignment I never could get right and the hood was a different color when I got backed into (at a stop even). And I was stuck in traffic on the north side of Houston and had to get down to the south side. I was able to pull off and got some antifreeze. It would last about 15 minutes and the car would overheat. The entire engine was smoking by the time I got home. I had just bought the Jimmy and was tired of dealing with the GA so I said "drive it til it dies". which it did. Went to pick a part the following weekend. I would see it in the lot from time to time for the next couple months while looking for remaining parts to the Jimmy. Hard to miss a white grand am with a teal blue hood. Then it was gone.