Originally Posted by
57fomoco
The gasket is one piece on each side of the intake, and you need to be carefull trying to tighten up the bolts you can over tourque them and cause it to leak more. One danger to not fixing the leak is that the leak tends to eat away at the aluminium on the heads and the intake manifold. That can get expensive real fast. It is a real common repair on all brands of vehicles. Let it go and a simple repair can get expensive real fast.
Interesting, I never thought about that. I have heard that these plastic intake manifolds are only good for so many miles. In your opinion would you replace the intake manifold, or try to fix it with the intake he already has. I'm curious, because I would like to know in case it starts happening to me. I hate these plastic intake manifolds.