Harry Truman once said, “If you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.” He could have been talking about either thin-skinned politicians or header gaskets. It’s hard to imagine a component that ...

Gaskets. At a glance they seem unimportant, yet without them, fluids would leak from every joint, fuel would spew, and flaming gases would explode from every crevice once the spark plug flashed.