[Clois Harlan]

Have you ever screwed up the installation of your intake manifold gaskets? If you have it was probably the end pieces, right? Well, I put my 3-M adhesive on my gasket instead of my heads and managed to let my adhesive dry too fast that I put around my water ports on my heads and my intake manifold gasket. So, I put a little more on there and things went from bad to worse. I guess I got the adhesive uneven on the gasket and when I bolted my intake down the excess adhesive allowed a vein for the water to travel into my exhaust port. When I fired it up my pipes looked like a steam engine. Naturally, I shut it down immediately and tonight I will pull my intake off and do the job rignt.

For those of you that my wonder why I use 3-M while I am using Fel-Pro gaskets that have a blue silicone sealant on the intake side of the gasket. It is because if you use a sealant like 3-M it will hold your gasket in place while you are positioning your manifold. I think I wll use the spray on copper gasket sealant when I install the next set of gaskets. Unless someone here can give me a good reason not to.


Clois