Heard an annoying slight whistle when doing some power valve experiments today. Found a leak at #5 cylinder between the intake and the head. Ordered some new gaskets from John Mummert. Anyone have a preferred method for aluminum to aluminum gasket installation? Taking the intake of tomorrow for a better look. Ain't this fun?



Update:

Never mind. Couldn't wait until the morning so I took the intake off after dinner. Found a piece of old gasket sitting in the area between the water passage and the intake port holding the manifold up. Must have been from the cast iron B manifold I was using for the break-in. The Best gaskets that I used are pretty thick and not as susceptible to slipping as the thinner stuff on "modern" engines I think. Onward through the fog.


57 Black Tbird 312/auto

It is always nice to find that a problem, isnt too much of a problem!

Mike, located in the Siskiyou mountains, Southern, OR 292 powered 1946 Ford 1/2 ton, '62 Mercury Meteor, '55 Country Squire (parting out), '64 Falcon, '54 Ford 600 tractor.

You are one lucky feller. I have known people breaking ears off aluminum manifolds through tightening down with old gaskets left behind.

The resulting crack when they break is big dollars.

Regards

Rick - West Australia
Do Y Blocks Downunder run upside down? Gravity Sucks!!