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Brain farting here..

I'm helping a buddy replace the lower intake gasket on his cobra intake. The gaskets he got were composition types from napa. There is nothing on the gaskets that say which side goes toward the head. The flat side?? or the side with the ridges?

Also should sealer be used around the water ports? Is that applied to the head or gasket?

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the Napa gaskets you are talking about probly have a graphite on both sides right....it dosn't really matter with those but I would put the side with the sharper edge down.....but that's jusm me but with those gaskets it don't mater.
 

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When I used those gaskets, I was told by the NAPA guy that the ridge goes towards the head.

I used a thin coat of sealer on both sides of the gasket at the water port. No leaks to date.
 
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Thanks guys.
 

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My favorite trick that saves time and effort is the stay in place gasket. Be sure that you scrape (don't use a wire brush) all the old gasket material off, then clean all the surfaces with acetone or MEK.

When the surfaces are clean, use weather strip adhesive on the head to manifold surface, and on the side of the gasket that mates to the head. Follow the instructions on the tube or can and when it gets tacky, press the gasket down on the head.

Clean the area where the rubber rails mount to the block in front and in the rear with more acetone or MEK and do the same trick with the weather strip adhesive that you did to the heads.

Coat the rubber seals and the gasket area around the water passages with lots of Blue Silicone gasket sealer and put it together. Yea! no leaks, and no gaskets that shifted out of place.

If you reuse the injectors from your old setup, a repair kit is available from most auto parts stores if needed. Coat the injector body "O" rings with oil before you use them and everything will slide back together. Take the other advice you got here and run with it.

Fuel injector seal kits with 2 O rings and a pintle cap (Borg-Warner P/N 274081) are available at Pep Boys auto parts. Cost is about $2.74 per kit. The following are listed at the Borg-Warner site ( http://www.borg-warner.com ) as being resellers of Borg-Warner parts:

http://www.partsplus.com/ or http://www.autovalue.com/ or http://www.pepboys.com/ or http://www.federatedautoparts.com/

Most of the links above have store locators for find a store in your area.

Use motor oil on the O rings when you re-assemble them & everything will slide into place. The gasoline will wash away any excess oil that gets in the wrong places and it will burn up in the combustion chamber.
 
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