Need some help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree with the idea that for some reason the intake is not dropping down. With that much room at the china walls, it should drop in nicely, and with so little variation in clearance from top to bottom it should seal, and with the bolts being at the bottom of the intake holes it should migrate nicely into place. I seem to remember you saying that you had pulled the roll-pins out of the china walls, so something seems very odd here.
I suppose, if you take the gaskets out, and drop the intake into the valley, if it was hanging up on something, it would rock on that something, Or slide sideways on that something?I've never had that happen to me.But I seem to recall you saying something about sliding in a much earlier post. Sliding should not occur unless there is no room at the china wall and the intake is sitting up too high(which your bolt-alignment sorta contradicts), nor should rocking of any kind.Either of these events should point to the problem.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm