Can a head gasket be reused?

[Shaddow]

Totally agree Mary should not be reusing her head gasket and have stated that all along.

Dear god please allow my fellow internet users the ability to read my entire post! P.S. God I may need that skill set also.

Where did I mention a back up vehicle for my Sunday afternoon case? You have a van that's great. It would have helped me how?
Having sex (unless its involved in a criminal act) is required to keep your income stream working how as opposed to using the bike to get to work to earn normally? Didn't you just say your a mechanic? How do your customers pay you? That is a joke just in case you have no sense of humour in which case it isn't a joke.
I never did think about pros... The analogy still has flaws in it, just not the big ones I first thought off, now it leaks rather than pours.

Also where the hell can I get a head gasket for 5 dollars?

Leaving aside your PERSONAL work ethics (which by the way I actually do agree with but that is not what I'm saying, hence my dig at you reading my posts) I shall quote myself from earlier.

Should you reuse? No! Can you successfully? Yes. Will it last as long? Hell No. Will it get you out of trouble? Possibly?

I try not to live in the box all the time. If I only ever replaced parts with like parts I would not have found that a 260Z left engine mount and a VP Commodore left engine mount allows me to put a Buick 3800 into my 260Z. Guess which one is in backwards. I would have done what other people have done and used an extremely overpriced adapter kit. With the help of my very handy friend with a sparkly stick I built my own Turbo extractors. Did you know the headers on the Buick 3800 can be changed from left to right? Meaning your extractors can exit in front of the engine making it much easier to build your own turbo extractors/headers.
Do you not ever just try something on an engine to see what would happen? Can it work? Sit down do the math and then give it a crack? Hell my 38 Chev had a ZF axle (2.57 ratio, such a cruisy diff), with VN Commodore links, 78 series landcruiser springs and a pannard (did I spell that right?) rod off a Fairlane. Tracked so well. If you don't get the gist of what I'm typing after this I really am just loosing the plot.

P.S While my posts do wander a bit and sometimes leave grammar in a questionable state (as does my spelling), may I ask something of you? Can I ask you to actually use capitals at the start of sentences (so I'm sure they are the start), question marks for questions and full stops at the end of sentences not in the middle. Just helps a touch to make sure I'm understanding your statements in the correct fashion.

P.S.S I was pleasantly surprised to find I'm arguing with a mechanic. I guess I was hoping you would have been a bit more open to keeping things alive not just doing things by the book.

P.S.S.S So if you are still reading lighten up, have a sense of humour and experiment.

P.S.S.S.S Good god this post never ends.

P.S.S.S.S.S I still haven't learnt to take my own advice if anyone cares or if anyone is still reading this. I'm also wondering when I'll get in trouble for my anger issues. I'm this angry in real life. I'm no keyboard warrior, I'll gladly jump down people's throat in the flesh but I don't make as much sense in the flesh. My mouth can't keep up with my thoughts and as such some of them never make it to my mouth, so in replay it makes little sense and must leave people thinking I'm a fool. Which is kind of right really. Just look at this post.

[Shaddow]

Wow I put to much effort in that post and have completely taken over Mary's thread.

Sorry Mary!

[Toogoofy317]

My goodness! Didn't mean to start a war here  . I've just already put quite a bit of money into this bike chasing wild turkeys. Every day that Flick is down I'm losing money but I'll get a new one so no one go into cardiac arrest LOL. I'm an EMT but don't think I'll make it to you in time

BTW how did condoms get put into the mix 

Mary

[Shaddow]

Its a male thing don't stress about it unless you need to use one.

[comradeiggy]

My goodness! Didn't mean to start a war here  . I've just already put quite a bit of money into this bike chasing wild turkeys. Every day that Flick is down I'm losing money but I'll get a new one so no one go into cardiac arrest LOL. I'm an EMT but don't think I'll make it to you in time

BTW how did condoms get put into the mix 

Mary

They're both one time use things. To be honest, it was a pretty terrible analogy.

[adidasguy]

Sex toys show up every once in a while. I remember someone posting about that pee pee thing handing off the end of the air box and if you squeeze it, liquid comes out.

[ghostrider_23]

I think this horse is  :2guns:dead and we should let in RIP

So Mary, what did you end up doing anyway???