black soot?
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Laughing Gas
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black soot?
So today I was working on the pickup. I changed the thermostat today basic maintenance. I creeped up underneath the truck to put a clamp on the lower radiator hose, and I saw that my exhaust manifold had some seapage with black wet soot. I wiped it off smelled it...didn't smell like anything to me. Not sure what it is. Any ideas? I'm using the felpro gasket set. I also didn't use any red RTV on the manifolds.
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Laughing Gas
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Yes sir EFI manifolds. It was on the bottom side of the manifolds and the wet black soot I call it was on the block too coming from the manifolds maybe they backed off a bit. I should have took a photo.
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Laughing Gas
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Yeah that's what I figured too When I first saw it was real quick and then I looked at it with a flashlight this morning I was like crap it's oil! I'm guessing if it coming from the port it's oil seals?
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Funny you should say that because I bought one for that same reason because it is leaking on the driver side towards the back of the block. It will be cleaned up regardless next week I plan on changing the intake manifold and finally putting on the Holley 465! :-)
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The holley 600 on the dp!! When I put the C series I think I'm gonna run it with out the heat plate. Hopefully it works out good! I'm hoping I don't get any bogs!
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