HELP!!!
These head gaskets that I bought for mi 2000 3.0 seem to each be missing an elongated coolant thermosiphon port hole. The heads have them. The head-to-block surfaces has them. The original gaskets have them. EVERY pic I look at for these (Amazon, part stores, etc.) is the same (with only one elongated port per gasket, rather than the two). Yet, the originals I took off DO have the two holes each. What's up? Are these right, just different??? They fit, other than that.

 

If your gaskets do not match exactly do not use them.

You may have a issue where someone changed the engine to a different year engine which may require different gaskets.

Find the engine identification number on your engine and confirm what year engine it is.

 

Ron's answered him here and as Ron said, someone stuck some Taurus gaskets in.
There's a link in Ron's post that explains what's going on.

https://www.ranger-forums.com/genera...6/#post2122963