Check your intake manifold bolts

[Wild one]

Anyone look into an improved aftermarket intake manifold gasket like the made for aluminum head gaskets to cast iron engine blocks?

Remember how those tore and leaked like a sieve due to vastly different thermal expansion rates of aluminum and cast iron? Dumping coolant into the engine oil? It took them a while, but they fixed it with steel backed elastomers of some kind. No longer a cheapo felt gasket.

They're O-rings,not really a gasket per say. I've used both Ma Mopars O-rings and Felpro's O-rings with good success,and the Felpro's are definitely cheaper. I can't really tell any differance on how often i have to retorque the bolts,as they both still need occassional retorquing

 

[Wild one]

Time to bump this back up again by the looks of it.

 

[HEMIMANN]

Well, with LocTite you know the bolts aren't loosening, so the rubber is taking a compression set, which means an inadequate design for an air seal.

It can't keep setting further down forever - eventually it will be metal on metal, then what - no seal? I'd have to see an assembly diagram to understand how they intended to seal this joint. Yeah, my engine's starting to sputter a bit again @ idle after this summer's full cleaning and torqueing.

So stupid.

 

[crackerjack1957]

Yeah, my engine's starting to sputter a bit again @ idle after this summer's full cleaning and torqueing.

Probably just need to blow out some carbon

 

[HEMIMANN]

Probably just need to blow out some carbon

Mmmmm not so much on a heavy duty truck weighing 6,600 pounds unloaded.

 

[Wild one]

Mmmmm not so much on a heavy duty truck weighing 6,600 pounds unloaded.

You need to give it to my neighbour,he'll blow the carbon out for you,lol.He drives a newer 2500 with the 6.4/8 speed,and i think that truck has 2 positions to the pedal,idle and wide open,lol. I don't know where the limiter kicks in on a stock 2500,but it appears it's north of a 100 mph,as i followed him one time,and it took a 100 mph to keep him in sight,lol. But then again we have lots of roads that look like this up here

 

[HEMIMANN]

You need to give it to my neighbour,he'll blow the carbon out for you,lol.He drives a newer 2500 with the 6.4/8 speed,and i think that truck has 2 positions to the pedal,idle and wide open,lol. I don't know where the limiter kicks in on a stock 2500,but it appears it's north of a 100 mph,as i followed him one time,and it took a 100 mph to keep him in sight,lol. But then again we have lots of roads that look like this up here

Gas is cheap too, eh?

 

[Bigskyroadglide]

I got some roads like that

 

[mikeru]

Gas is cheap too, eh?

Hey, it's cheap compared to what I was paying when I was in Italy last month. In some places it was 1.98 euro/liter. Which is over $8/gallon. After two weeks buying gas there I was happy to come home and see gas at $4.35/gal.

 

[Wild one]

Hey, it's cheap compared to what I was paying when I was in Italy last month. In some places it was 1.98 euro/liter. Which is over $8/gallon. After two weeks buying gas there I was happy to come home and see gas at $4.35/gal.

Right now we're a bit down,in my area here in Alberta we're at about $1.30 a litre or right around $4.90/$5.00 a gallon

 

[turkeybird56]

Hey, it's cheap compared to what I was paying when I was in Italy last month. In some places it was 1.98 euro/liter. Which is over $8/gallon. After two weeks buying gas there I was happy to come home and see gas at $4.35/gal.

Last time I was in Germany, it was 1.43 (mark) a Liter, which was just shy of $4.00 a gallon,. but that was 1994.

 

[Wild one]

I got some roads like that

Montana isn't to far away from southern Alberta,and the roads are very similiar.I grew up in Saskatchewan,and didn't know the steering wheel turned,i thought it was something you hung onto,so you could shift your a$$ around on the seat after a couple hours of driving in a straightline , great place to find out how fast something would go ,lol

 

[Wild one]

Last time I was in Germany, it was 1.43 (mark) a Liter, which was just shy of $4.00 a gallon,. but that was 1994.

By my calculations $1.43 a litre works out to right around $5.40 a gallon,if using 3.78 litres to a gallon

 

[turkeybird56]

By my calculations $1.43 a litre works out to right around $5.40 a gallon,if using 3.78 litres to a gallon

Not $1.43 a liter, 1.43 marks per liter. Than either at that time used your Issued AAFES coupons if you had any left, or paid cash either marks with marks you bought either at Army Finance Office or Community Bank (Was AMEX in those years), or give the Attendant "American" money, which they loved, because they ALWAYS made a great exchange rate for them, lol.

FTR: Back than, on your USAREUR (US Army Europe Registration) that U renewed every year, you had sections and U had to go to PX and "Buy": your gas coupons. The last vehicle I had in Europe was a 74 Mercedes SEL with the 2.8 dual carb setup. The most coupons U could buy for a month within timeframes was 400 liters a month. It was over 45 K's from where I "lived" to where I was stationed one way, so 400 liters not much. Of course the coupons had expiration dates on them so if U wanted to take a trip paying US prices U were a coupon saving fool, lmao. I also got 200 liters for my Motorcycle, so I always had my save envelope for any trips, as I sure as heck not wanna pay the Economy price, lol.

 

[Wild one]

Looks like it's time to bump this thread back up.

 

[CanuckRam1313]

Montana isn't to far away from southern Alberta,and the roads are very similiar.I grew up in Saskatchewan,and didn't know the steering wheel turned,i thought it was something you hung onto,so you could shift your a$$ around on the seat after a couple hours of driving in a straightline , great place to find out how fast something would go ,lol

Have you driven through SK in the middle of winter and in a heavy downfall snowstorm?
Visions of going hyper-speed in the Millennium Falcon come to mind...lol

I dang near lost my mind and drove off into oblivion....lol

 

[Wild one]

Have you driven through SK in the middle of winter and in a heavy downfall snowstorm?
Visions of going hyper-speed in the Millennium Falcon come to mind...lol

I dang near lost my mind and drove off into oblivion....lol

I remember driving more then a few times after dark when there was heavy ground drifting,and turning the headlights off to see. Above the power poles it was clear sky and a full moon,and you could see better with out the headlights.
Also remember a few times where i had to walk in front of the vehicle in heavy fog,and direct the driver,as you couldn't see the road/highway.

 

[CanuckRam1313]

I remember driving more then a few times after dark when there was heavy ground drifting,and turning the headlights off to see. Above the power poles it was clear sky and a full moon,and you could see better with out the headlights.
Also remember a few times where i had to walk in front of the vehicle in heavy fog,and direct the driver,as you couldn't see the road/highway.

Sometimes, it's difficult to be a responsible and good driver!!!

 

[HEMIMANN]

Dammit @Wild one , my sputter is slowly returning.

Spring experiment will be to see if screws turn with specified torque with set loctite. If not, technically this means they should be removed, threads cleaned, new loctite applied, and torqued.

What a royal PITA!

 

[crackerjack1957]

Only way to see if screws are turning is to mark head of screw & matching mark on intake.