Thread: upper intake and lower intake manifold gasket

Upper intake gasket?

Yup we don't have one of those we have the Supercharger gasket and the lim gasket. Change both they're rather cheap and then change the coolant elbows to the aluminum ones and make sure your water pump isn't leaking. If you knock these thing out you shouldn't have any coolant leaking anymore. Without changing the SC gasket there's a chance that'll you'll be chasing a vacuum leak soon after do it the right way the first time.

You can check your waterpump by removing the belt and putting your hands on the pulley at like 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock and pulling on it if there's play then chances are your pumps bad and I would swap it out.

The abs/TC lights are easy to diagnose with the right scanner. Take it to I believe Oreileys can scan and code or go to a automotive shop and pay a little money to have them scan it and they should be able to tell you what the problem is without throwing parts at it. Call ahead and make sure they are able to scan abs codes for your vehicle before you pay them.

Definitely check coolant elbows and water pump.

ABS and TRAC might turn out to be a wheel bearing. Not a terrible job.

If you can't figure it out buy a pressure tester or have it tested. That way you can see the leak if it is external which most likely is.

you bled the air from the system too? if not it could take small amounts of coolant for a while till its full.

how the tranny feel? the fluid over filled?

if your not seeing coolant on the ground, then the only other place it can go is a cracked tranny cooler ( the tranny would be over filled from taking in coolant) or a blown head gasket. it would eat the coolant and burn it out the tail pipes. your exhaust would smell sweet and have a white fog like smoke out the tail pipes.

or a bad head gasket can also push the coolant out the over flow tank.

or the heater core is leaking inside the car, check for a wet carpet.

not likely.

you should do a compression test. if one cylinder is real low you found a bad head gasket.

not sure where you live, but cold weather this time of year will also cause water out the tail pipes when cold. its just condensation from the exhaust system. aka cold pipes. res, and mufflers.

And headgaskets are rare on our motors to go out.

Originally Posted by REDCOMPG

And headgaskets are rare on our motors to go out.

they are rare, but wheres the coolant going? that would be the last place i checked if everything else checks out fine.

compression test is easy to do too.

True

Originally Posted by Scottydoggs

not likely.

you should do a compression test. if one cylinder is real low you found a bad head gasket or a poped piston like this.

fixed that for ya lol

chipped piston dont cause coolant loss. chipped piston will make the cylinder misfire like mad.

you can try blue devil head gasket sealer. theres a lot of you tube vids saying it worked fine, then others say it killed there engines.


heres a quick head gaskets test, rad cap off and the rad full, rev the engine, watch the rad cap hole, if bubbles show in the rad hole, the head gasket is bad.