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not sure if it’s the intake manifold or head gasket that is leaking. i know this engine is notorious for this, but assuming just isnt gonna cut it. it was over heating and used a ton of gas when the problem was noticable. what are the steps to rule out that the head gasket is not the culprit? i also dont know if the intake gasket was torn up from removing it. any advice is much apreciated.
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99% of the time its the intake gaskets. You would need
to replace the intake gaskets to do a block test to see
if combustion gas is leaking into the coolant. you could
pull the plugs and look into the the cylinder for coolant.Head and Intake gaskets are giant problms on that motor. Uusually the head gaskets leak externally, back right cornor of engine.
wouldnt both gaskets leak into the cylinder? if there is coolant in the there what does that tell me?
Your intake gasket does look bad, but I’ve seen much worse. The slightest deformation would make a leak. Quite honestly, it isn’t much more work to pull the heads and replace the gaskets. The parts are cheap as well. If you decide to go that route, replace the head bolts as well…..they’re only like $25 for a set for this engine. Don’t forget, the push rods are different lengths, so you may want to keep them in order, but if memory serves me the exhaust valves take the longer push rods.
thanks for the tip, i apprecate it. i shove the push rods through a cardboard box in the order that they go with the front of engine marked.
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