So my parents gave me a 95 f150 recently after I had a performance shop screw me and my car over. Anyways... The truck has a 5.8 with 198k miles. I went to do a tune up last weekend and noticed a ton of oil in the air box, and the dreaded milkey residue. Not much but enough to make me dig deeper.

Anyways after talking to a couple people tossing ideas around, I decided to try and change out the intake manifold gaskets (there's burnt coolant trail very faint on driver front runner). The intake system is caked with deposits worse than I've ever seen. I have everything unbolted for the intake manifold but it does not want to come off or budge. Any tricks I should try for getting it off and cleaning the crap out? Should I remove the valve covers and clean them out as well since the oils pushing through the pcv?

 

It may be just frozen due to age and crud. Had same problem on my '92, 302. Several gentle taps with a rubber mallet freed it. Just be sure that all bolts have been removed. I think there are 12 or 14, IIRC.

After you power wash it, I have seen where folks have run it through the dishwasher and achieved a brilliant shine. Cleaning the valve covers would be a good thing to do period.

 

You must be a divorce attorney trolling for new customers.

 

I've sent a couple of intakes to the machine shop to have them cleaned. They came back spotless, inside and out, and ready to paint.