Lower intake gasket replacement
#21
Wow. This is incredibly helpful, thank you so much. A little light reading to do before I go much further in my disassembly.
So it sounds like I don't need to remove the PS pulley, which is very okay with me. I expected that the pulley may hold the aluminum bracket in place if it's not removed. I'll remove all of the nuts/bolts and try it first before assuming to remove that guy. Pulley removal is a brute-force PITA and not something anyone wakes up and looks forward to doing.
So it sounds like I don't need to remove the PS pulley, which is very okay with me. I expected that the pulley may hold the aluminum bracket in place if it's not removed. I'll remove all of the nuts/bolts and try it first before assuming to remove that guy. Pulley removal is a brute-force PITA and not something anyone wakes up and looks forward to doing.
#23
#25
What type of RTV should I have on-hand? I know the gasket kit comes with some, but if that runs out I want to have some extra available. I can get black, high-temp red, grey, etc. Red seems like the right application, but there are too many options.
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#29
I went with the Fel Pro MS 98002 T gasket kit. Taking off the intake manifold I can only assume mine is still stock/original, and it had RTV across the zone between the intake gaskets (what was left of it).
#30
You should have been there in the late 70's when GM eliminated a lot of gaskets and went with just orange RTV by itself for oil pan and valve cover gaskets. Bad idea!! It was called G.M.S. (General Motors Sealer). We had a tech we called the GMS kid. He kept a caulking gun with a huge tube of GMS - he would spray leaks down with carb cleaner, smear GMS on the outside, and charge GM for a warranty repair like the part was removed. Same guy knocked over a tray of un-marked rod caps and mixed them up. Spend days switching them around until engine would turn freely again. Didn't last through the test drive.