Hello
I am replacing a cylinder head on my 97 ram 1500 with a 360. I bought a fel pro gasket. I noticed that a few coolant holes didn't line up. I double checked the numbers and called fel pro and they told me that I definitely had the correct gasket. Has anyone had this problem?

 

i just rebuilt my 318 and found the same thing i had holes where there where no holes through the castings but i made sure all the coolant galleys had coolant access

 

The tech at fel pro told me to leave it the way it is...... Maybe I should pull it apart and redo it. I get so frustrated with these dilemmas !

 

The ones I put on my 440 had extra coolent holes because different blocks and heads have more or less coolent holes. If they are blind on either the block or head they will still seal fine.

 

Some of the block coolant holes are restricted to force fluid flow to the rear of the heads so yes this is normal / correct , do not enlarge the holes