I'm not saying the intake being cranked down is THE problem, but if I can spend five minutes (and no money) and loosen a few bolts and it stops leaking I'll call it good. If that doesn't work, I'll continue digging. Next step would be to pull the intake and actually measuring things out and if I need to take something to the machine shop I will. Like I said, I feel like it's an angle problem that's being exacerbated by being overtorqued. No certainty in that at the moment, but it makes sense to me and it's worth a shot. Don't see how I'd be chasing my tale with that.
