Another project nearing completion
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Another project nearing completion
After about 2 months of putting it off, I'd finally had enough of the intake manifold gasket leak on my '72 Supreme.
So I buckled down and ordered a set of gaskets and started the teardown this past Thursday.
My buddy came over that afternoon and helped me with getting the gaskets on and setting the intake on. (Helpful tip: make sure you remove the rags before you set the intake on...we almost missed that important step...lol) For those that want to know, we used Permatex Ultra Grey around the water jackets and as well as the front and rear of the intake, and Indian head on the gaskets themselves.
Everything is all back together as of yesterday, and tomorrow we're dropping in the distributor and setting the timing.
Anxious to hit the key and call it done!
So I buckled down and ordered a set of gaskets and started the teardown this past Thursday.
My buddy came over that afternoon and helped me with getting the gaskets on and setting the intake on. (Helpful tip: make sure you remove the rags before you set the intake on...we almost missed that important step...lol) For those that want to know, we used Permatex Ultra Grey around the water jackets and as well as the front and rear of the intake, and Indian head on the gaskets themselves.
Everything is all back together as of yesterday, and tomorrow we're dropping in the distributor and setting the timing.
Anxious to hit the key and call it done!
Last edited by 72455; April 6th, 2024 at 06:06 PM.
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Yeah, my original iron 350 manifold tipped me over into the engine bay when I was leaning over the fender putting it back on by myself. That was in high school when I was a bit lighter than I am now, but a BBO manifold would still tip me over.
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So my buddy Mike came over Wednesday and we dropped the distributor in and set the timing. Fired it up and still had an oil leak. We saw it was coming from the passenger side valve cover gasket. I swapped it out tonight and no joy.. still have a leak from somewhere. It's not the valve cover gasket...that's bone dry. My only guess is the oil filter housing gasket, so I'm gonna swap that out next. Arg...just when I thought it was good.
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