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I had a milodon high flow water pump and a little after a year it started to drip from the weep hole, replaced with a flow kooler, at least thry have a 2 year warranty, using a milodon high flow t stat as well which has worked well

Ok just a update, i checked the heads, china walls and intake with a straight edge, no noticeable gaps, there was a very slight light gap when i got to the rear of the intake flange where the rear water ports would be, i could barely see light through in a spot but i doubt its even measurable...

all the bolts are the same length, the 4 on the outer corners are 1-1/4” deep, the intake flange is about 3/4” thick and the bolts are 1-5/8”

lol i thought that as i was typing it

Also fwiw i dont know what brand intake gaskets the engine builder used but they were the same shape as the felpro, were black and seemed like a paper maybe composite gasket, they didnt put any sealant around the water jackets and they had put some red tacky stuff on the head and used some type...

You should have felt how much my heart sank when i saw the little bit of coolant residue, im like come on! And i have been tedious about checking for coolant the last 2 months since i put it back together.

Not really! Lol. Although i was quicker taking it apart this time lmao

Im thinking im going to make a dowel for each corner to guide the intake on and make sure it is centered as good as possible. Me and dad got it super close last time but did have to finesse it a little to get a few of the bolts to start

hey im just askin, this is a new one on me. I havent built engines or put them together so you guys know the little gremlins better than me. I have no explanation why, and i have tried to logically think of all the possibilities. i will check the intake, heads and block with a straight edge...

So im wondering if that is oil and it migrated to the water passages and oil residue had mixed with the #2 gasket sealant causing it to separate maybe thats what caused the coolant to sweat out the gasket?

So what yall are saying is that possibly oil made its way up through the bolts and soaked the gasket? Only thing on the bolts when i took them out was thread sealant.

im not 100% certain but i dont believe so, if they were it couldnt have been much

Also not sure if will make a difference but the edelbrock gaskets are .060 thick and the felpro steel core gaskets are .065 thick. The original gaskets that were in there from the rebuild appeared to be about the same thickness as both the edelbrock and felpro gaskets.

i understand that and i tried to prevent it from leaking. Im guessing the #2 gasket sealant doesnt work well on the intake gasket? I used it on my thermostat and water pump gasket with no problems. I figure it would have on the intake, im going to use rtv this time and we shall see. I know you...

i cant get a consistent instruction on the gaskets. On the instructions for the intake it says to only use gasgacinch on the head and head side of the gasket. On the edelbrock intake gasket instructions it says to use gasgacinch on the head and head side of the gasket and rtv around the coolant...

it probably mostly soaked into the gasket, i used #2 gasket sealant on both sides

Also i looked at the intake in correlation to the holes in the head before i pulled the intake. the bottom of the bolt opening on the intake was just about lined up with the bottom of the threads in the head maybe just below, from what ive read this is about ideal as the intake will go down when...

i cant confirm that all the dampness is from coolant but it was sweating coolant on the four exposed parts of the gasket on the corners that extends past the intake. But would the oil from the valley be seeping through the gasket? I wouldnt think so.

on all 4 corners? I wouldnt think so. Just weird ot was sealed for 2 months then all the sudden appeared, just doesnt make sense, i would think if it was soaking the gasket with oil that the intake would have oil on it as well

i plan to, i used thread sealant on all the bolts when i last did the intake gasket. I also plan on using rtv around the coolant passages instead of gasket sealant

it shouldnt need to be, it was sealed fine for the first 3 or 4 years after it was rebuilt, after about 3 or 4 years i had a small amount of coolant that would come out of the front pass side bolt but would be one little dab of coolant once every month or so, here the first of this year it had...

Also there was no coolant in the valley

i checked that and the threads in the 4 corners are 1-1/4” deep, intake flange is 3/4” thick for a total of 2” The intake bolts i have are 1-5/8” long from washer to end of threads

im pretty confident that the threaded holes are not getting coolant in them, the ends of the bolts on all 4 corners had no coolant on them, i also did use thread sealant on all the bolts. But i get what you are saying

the 4 outer threaded holes on the edelbrock heads are blind, they are not exposed to coolant

Ran after work and got the edelbrock gaskets. Got the intake off and almost the whole gasket is damp. I looked and the impression from the intake appears to be uniform and you can see the whole intake flange made a uniform indentation in the gasket what caused this? I dont believe the valve...

yeah but the bolts arent leaking, the coolant is soaking the gasket and literally looks like it is traveling through the gasket and then sweating it out.

One of a advanced auto parts stores about 30 min away has a edelbrock 7276 gasket set in stock, gonna go there after work and get it, i wanna be done with this lol

the engine has been rebuilt with the edelbrock heads and intake installed by the engine builder, had no leaks for about the first 2 years then every once in awhile the driver front intake bolt would barely seep coolant, took it out and put some permatex #2 on the threads, at the time i didnt...

its seeping up from the gasket on all four sides, but the coolant isnt seeping out the ends, only seeping up the gasket towards the valve covers, then it looks like its sweating out of the gasket. Idk if its a bad gasket or the gasket sealant affected the gasket, im going to try and get a...