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Originally Posted by puppster
I just pulled my Edelbrock Performer intake because I found a vacuum leak, and found that I no doubt over torqued the intake, and smashed the gasket. It had moved around, and split in several spots. This as I recall is a Fel-Pro Print-o-seal gasket. I torqued it originally to the specs provided by Edelbrock, but last summer I found seveal extremely loose intake bolts and re-torqued to 22ft lbs. Question is, do I need to use a Print-O-Seal gasket, or will a standard Fel Pro gasket work? I have these handy, and they appear to be re-inforced around the ports, the pront-o-seal is not. Oh BTW I have Edelbrock aluminum heads also.
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the reinz gaskets are hard to come by, at least for me, try anything that looks cardboardy, they will be better than the felpro's . check out napa and see what they have. i use the aviation gasket seal, brown poopy stuff in a jar with a brush. be careful with the eldeldork heads they don't have thread inserts in them, just aluminum threads. i check for vacuum leaks every month or so with a vacuum guage. take a reading when you first install and use that as a base line. check the valve cover surface, the seam between head and intake, is it level? have seen numerous heads that are out of square. this can lead to intake leaks.
Fred