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Old 12-16-2019, 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by tortuga View Post
Done that drill lke 5 times now, finally ended up with flatout 0.120 gaskets, trimmed the tops so that the inward taper on the upper part of the heads didn't force the gaskets down, maximized the area on the bottom where the intake bears...Think thats a problem with these big port head there isn't but like 3/8" of gasket area at the bottoms of the intake ports...
Did you smear a thin layer of RTV on gaskets? Re-torque after 24 hours? Then re-torque AGAIN after engine run and heated to operating temperature?

It took ALL of the above to finally get mine to seal.
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