[Bob Carriere]

For the head gasket may I suggest you contact antique engine clubs..... there are suppliers they get gasket material from which they cut they own head gasket....... comes in sheets of compacted asbestos or ceramic cloth held together by a high temperature bonding agent..... various thickness and can be backed up with soft pure copper sheet. Seems it works well on single and double cylinder engines... rather hard to cut but made one for a Fairbanks 5hp magneto hand started engine and it worked. For a 6 cyl head I would consider two soft copper sheets with ceramic cloth in between so you have something to compress with the head bolts. Collectors/rebuilders of old steam engines maybe another source.