1105 said:I would put the intake on while it wa still wet that way when you tighten it down the RTV will fill in any low places and the intake will sit where its supposed to on the head.
1105 said:I dont even use RTV except for on the corners where the front and back pieces (rubber or cork) meets the lower to head gaskets. Everything else stays dry except something on the bottoms of the front and back pieces to hold them in place. Installed correctly you won't get a leak... Not many people do it that way for some reason. Guess I'm too poor to afford a tube of RTV
Zach and you are right. There is NO NEED to cake that **** on there. The only thing it is going to do is clog the ports and make a mess. Torque everything down properly, and there shouldn't be a problem. When I put the lower manifold on the heads, I used 4 dabs in each corner. When I mean dabs, they were smaller than a dime.madams74 said:This is the right way to do it. I have never ran the bead across. Just the corners like the directions tell you to. I have never had any leaks. The rubber is made with a number of peaks and valleys and is designed to catch anything that would happen to slip through, preventing a leak. If your prep the metal and make sure it is completly oil free and down to the bone dry base RTV probably would be OK. I just had a bad experience with a huge chunk of RTV that broke loose in an engine and I found pieces of it in the bottom of the oil pan. I dont trust the stuff.
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