INTAKE GASKET ORIENTATION QUESTION

[CFD244]

Hi Folks

340 Engine Fel-pro intake gaskets............Which way is up?

One side of the gasket has a raised rib around the ports and water passages. Does this side face the intake, or the head?

Thanks FABO

 

[George Jets]

☆☆☆☆☆

 

[RustyRatRod]

I always face the silicone beads up too, but I honestly don't think it matters.

 

[4spdragtop]

Printoseal up.

 

[CFD244]

Thanks Guys.

 

[CFD244]

All righty.............I got everything prepped. Super cleaned with lacquer thinner, Gaskets intalled, RTV in the corners and water passages, and cork china wall gaskets spayed with tack. Set the intake in place perfectly with all the holes lined up.............................Dropped the first F'n intake bolt through the head and into the lifter gallery LOL............The story of my life!

 

[JDMopar]

If you can see it thru the hole....get it with a magnet.

 

[dadsbee]

All righty.............I got everything prepped. Super cleaned with lacquer thinner, Gaskets intalled, RTV in the corners and water passages, and cork china wall gaskets spayed with tack. Set the intake in place perfectly with all the holes lined up.............................Dropped the first F'n intake bolt through the head and into the lifter gallery LOL............The story of my life!

Maybe you should go fishing.....

 

[4spdragtop]

Lol, what was that about hurdles Troy?
As JD said you may get it with a magnet? I have a Felpro 1213 set I can get in mail asap if you need, unless you can get one locally?
Good luck!

 

[JDMopar]

One of those flexible grabbers would be good too if he can see it. You know, the ones you hold between your index and bird fingers, and mash the button with your thumb and the little grabbers extend out the other end? One of those have saved my butt numerous times in situations like the OP has found himself in.

 

[CFD244]

Maybe you should go fishing.....

7 days and counting!

 

[CFD244]

Lol, what was that about hurdles Troy?
As JD said you may get it with a magnet? I have a Felpro 1213 set I can get in mail asap if you need, unless you can get one locally?
Good luck!

Thanks Steve. It took me a bit with some blind sweeping, but my magnet eventually caught it. Needless to say, I have every hole plugged NOW while I am putting it together.

 

[74Scooter]

Thanks Steve. It took me a bit with some blind sweeping, but my magnet eventually caught it. Needless to say, I have every hole plugged NOW while I am putting it together.

Glad luck was on your side!

Back in 1988 or so I was reinstalling the 383 after being freshened up in this thing:

Mid summer on a concrete slab behind the hobby shop at Travis AFB right next to the exhaust blower for the wood shop.. only about 102 that day.. good times for me and my buddies getting cooked and dusted simultaneously. We get the long block back from the builder and spend a long afternoon getting it in and attached to the 727. Suns going down and we are onto the short strokes, accessories radiator, exhaust, etc. I'm getting ready to install the intake. I set the intake gasket (if you've never seen one it looks like a cookie sheet) in place and set the 6 small bolts for the front and rear on it. Turn to grab the intake, with intake in hand as I turn back around one of my buddies lifts the intake gasket to re position it... we both watch in horror as the 6 little bolts roll down that gasket and disappear into the open cam galley. I felt a bit ill...lol. We were able to retrieve 3 from the oil pan. The other 3 were not to be found.

Long /short. The motor had to come back out the next day and be rotated on an engine stand for a few minutes until the other 3 fell out.

I'll take your kind of luck any day of the week.

 

[CFD244]

Glad luck was on your side!

Back in 1988 or so I was reinstalling the 383 after being freshened up in this thing:

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Mid summer on a concrete slab behind the hobby shop at Travis AFB right next to the exhaust blower for the wood shop.. only about 102 that day.. good times for me and my buddies getting cooked and dusted simultaneously. We get the long block back from the builder and spend a long afternoon getting it in and attached to the 727. Suns going down and we are onto the short strokes, accessories radiator, exhaust, etc. I'm getting ready to install the intake. I set the intake gasket (if you've never seen one it looks like a cookie sheet) in place and set the 6 small bolts for the front and rear on it. Turn to grab the intake, with intake in hand as I turn back around one of my buddies lifts the intake gasket to re position it... we both watch in horror as the 6 little bolts roll down that gasket and disappear into the open cam galley. I felt a bit ill...lol. We were able to retrieve 3 from the oil pan. The other 3 were not to be found.

Long /short. The motor had to come back out the next day and be rotated on an engine stand for a few minutes until the other 3 fell out.

I'll take your kind of luck any day of the week.

Oh geez...............And I thought I had bad luck.