Need tips installing Intake

Are you sure it's an intake gasket and not a head gasket? Or something else? I dont use RTV around the water jackets. Are you re-torquing the manifold? Is the manifold warped? Are you cleaning the gasket surfaces compltely?

How much were the heads milled? If they were milled a lot did the intake side of the head get milled to match?

Could it be the timing cover?

A cracked head? Is the intake cracked on a water port?

Are you torquing to sequence?

What gaskets? Are they being put on correctly?

Are you retorquing after the first heat up/ cool down? I had to do this twice.

Like I said I dont use rtv around the water ports. I know other people do. I have only done this when using steel intake gaskets on small block mopars ages ago. Are you using too much? I use a light coat of gasket sealant on the head side, then place the intake gasket on the head. I would not recommend doubling the intake gaskets.

it seemed I was only smoking on the pass. side. I've put about 200 miles on it since the 2nd change and it just seems to be getting worse (more white smoke) about half a gallon coolant lose it those 200 miles.

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Are you sure it's not your head gasket?

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. Also use the weather strip adhesive on the side of the gasket that mates to the head. When you are done, the head surface and the gasket surface that mate together will have weather strip adhesive on them. 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. Wala! 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.