Re: [AMC-list] WNATED: 66-72 V8 Intake baffle (the shallow one)

[tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

Ugh, I hate crap like that, scares the pants off you.

I always hated dealing with V8 intake seal issues! Between milled heads and
aftermarket manifolds there's plenty of room for leaks.

Any dozen people on this list are better'n'me on the v8s, but I'd get that
whole area clean dry and goop-less and check the thing for fit before
assembling it. Mating surfaces should be flat and parallel. If the mani
drops down too far (heads too far apart) you'll need to deal with that.

if the plugs all look good, eg. not weirdly colored or gooped up, it would
hint that it is manifold leaks not a bad head crack or something.



On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:32, russ hathaway <russh97309@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have been away for awhile and got back with you guys a month ago. Good to
> see AMC chatter.
> I have a 360 in a Concorde that originally was a 304. It was running rough
> and I finally narrowed it down to the coil being bad. So that gave me a good
> excuse to go to an MSD ignition set-up.
> It runs real nice and after setting up the distributor and hot-box I pulled
> out the dipstick to check things out. I found water in the oil!!
> Not good. I thought it was the PVC grommet as when I opened the hood, water
> dripped at that area.
> So I changed the oil and grommet, new PVC and fired it up. Ran real nice
> and I shut it down to check the oil, water in it again!
> In 5 minutes running it gained 1/2 qt of oil.
> So I did the following; plugs are dry, a little sooty. Dry compression says
> 135-145 with no noticable increase when checked wet.
> It runs good, no misfires or anything.
> Pulled of the rocker covers and foam everywhere, nothing noticable.
> I started to pull the intake and the passenger center bolts were real
> loose, only finger tight. I noticed a lot of goop on every gasket surface
> like they were afraid of leaks.
> I pulled the intake and the galley looks nice, but foamy.
> So I cleaned everything, and will replace the intake gasket.
> Anything else to check before I button it up. I pulled the lifters (yeah,
> keeping them in order) and everything looks new or low miles.
> There is no sign of oil in the water.
> I've only had the car 3 months or so........Russ
>
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