You can get away without replacing the headgasket, but I wouldn't. Having lost a block to a corrosion issue due to an old headgasket on a 22RE, it just isn't that much harder to do it right - IMHO at least.


-Bill
'87 4Runner w/ '96 5VZ-FE, 'Red Chili II'
'97 Taco XtraCab 3RZ-FE, 'BlackBean'
TLCA # 13257, Rising Sun 4x4 Club Land Use Coordinator
"He who stops being better stops being good." -Oliver Cromwell