Head gasket fitment

[Bumbizzled]

Hi all. Bought a thicker head gasket from oldtimer, went to put it back together and the dowel holes are slightly out. Line them up and the gasket is slightly bowed. Anyone with a bit more experience with this think this is fine or best to go back to them?

[Ferrit]

It looks all over the place doesnt it!  Where are you again?

I have a spare new gasket sat on my pin board in my workshop you could compare with.  I am in KT7

[Bumbizzled]

Up north near Leeds. Yeah we tried our best finagle it but it wouldn't line up properly. I've just gone and ordered one off AECar. I don't know why I couldn't find it from there when I was looking for one, but it looks similar to the one I took off. Slightly annoying as I was hoping to fire it up today

[Ferrit]

I bought all my head work stuff from AEC.  He was excellent.  Valves, guides, gaskets, etc.  I bought the heavy duty HG in the end, so had the one from the set left over.

MF