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you dont need a gasket, just use automotive silicone (fuel does not dissolve it into a gooey mess). available everywhere including the local servo. It'll be located between the wall of 200 varieties of fizzy drinks and the ladies sanitaries remeber when you could get car bits like fan belts and batteries and fuses and coolant and oil at servos? and you could get your car serviced there too...a long long long long time ago. i digress,,,, available pretty much everywhere. I once owned a jeep and when i qizzed the mechanic re the excessive red goo oozing out from between my intake manifold and head he advised me that they did that c's i would have been waiting a month for a gasket , and the reason it oozed out a bit was they put it on the very outside edge of the manifold port flanges so as not to have a similar ooze on the inside obstucting the inlet ports. and need to wait until it sets to trim off excess. ran it like that for 5 years with no dramas. until the day i sold it,

crap.
I did the exact opposite- put it right up around the inside of the port flanges so no doubt i've got a quarter of my ports filled with ooze. Well, time to get it off and re-do.
If i put the extractors on (Genie) will they marry up nicely with the existing exhaust? Obviously not length wise but vertically and horizontally?

Even a useless fark like me can change a manifold gasket. They are quite simple.

I used to remember doing one every 6 months on an old red motor I had

Cal wrote:

Even a useless fark like me can change a manifold gasket. They are quite simple.

I used to remember doing one every 6 months on an old red motor I had

Maybe you couldn't really do it if you had to replace it every 6 months .

Trev wrote:

Cal wrote:

Even a useless fark like me can change a manifold gasket. They are quite simple.

I used to remember doing one every 6 months on an old red motor I had

Maybe you couldn't really do it if you had to replace it every 6 months .

lmao.....

Agree with Tim - needs a gasket. Red-goo-no-gasket is as bad as using pliers on bolts or fencing wire on an exhaust - good to get you out of trouble, but not a routine repair method.

Then again, I do own four different sizes of BFH (never force things... Get a bigger hammer).

Are gaskets like condoms? Or can i re-use it? (maybe if i just turn it inside out)

Pretty much, they aren't that dear so its easier to just get one and save yourself future headaches.

Harv wrote:Agree with Tim - needs a gasket. Red-goo-no-gasket is as bad as using pliers on bolts or fencing wire on an exhaust - good to get you out of trouble, but not a routine repair method.

as i said Harv, with the ol' daily driver Jeep, the option at the time was.... drive it with Goo or don't drive it at all and wait for a gasket to come from the Good Ol USofA in the next shipment/order

better still while you got the manifolds off,,,run a stright edge
along the faces all the way if its been loose,,missing nuts,,etc
could be warped,,good chance....may req machine....or ya will be
doing it all again,,and probs cheeper then buyin all that silly kun
hahaha

Point taken Marty . I guess if the gasket is complex you have no choice, though a roll of gasket sheet and some careful tracing works for the simple ones.

Good point Mez, hadn't thought of that.