Intake coolant leak

Freezerman said
This is about as good as I could get, had to use a mirror. The gap is the china wall. No gasket installed

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With the manifold sitting on there do the ports in the manifold line up with the ports in the head?

You can’t pick a gasket thickness without knowing that. Or you have to pick a gasket and machine the manifold to make it fit.

Whoever told you just drop some .028’s in there was on dope.

That’s pretty thin.