help identifying head gasket

[rabidant]

Have had 4 of these hanging around for years can't remember where they came from look like some form of commercial vehicle, on the packaging it has LV10 FV141942 Gasket cylinder head QTY4 googled the numbers but drew a blank thought the PH collective may shed light on them

[wildoliver]

6 cyl sidevalve engine?

[friederich]

Looks more like an IoE engine - only one valve per cyl in the block (the exhaust). What's the bore?

[rabidant]

Sorry sizes would help!! length of gasket 26" 3/4 inches width 8" inches bore @ 3"3/4 inches

[jith]

wildoliver said:

6 cyl sidevalve engine?

Good suggestion Oliver. I think it looks like a Rover P4, overhead inlet, side exhaust.

It's a while since I've done one, but it is the correct shape.

[rabidant]

found pics of the P4 gasket along the right lines but not the same thanks for the effort

[friederich]

I'll have a guess at a Rolls-Royce B61 commercial engine, often fitted to Dennis fire engines. These were a larger bore (3.75 vs 3.5) version of the military B60 engine used in the Ferret scout car.

The arrangement of the exhaust valves ports (1...2.3...4.5...6) looks correct, as does the cutout between 3 and 4 for the vertically mounted distributor.

[rabidant]

Thanks for the info Friederich couldn't find a picture of the rolls royce gasket to compare will keep looking

[Balmoral Green]

friederich said:

I'll have a guess at a Rolls-Royce B61 commercial engine,

I was thinking B60 ioe too. But didn't post as thought it was extreme woracle.