86GT 93LX

ok im doing my headgasket and i found this, the gasket in the back of the intake was never on right. its stiff in the position its in so i know its not from me removing the lower intake. theres crud everywhere on the back of the motor and bellhousing too. anyone know what this being like this might cause, this couldnt be responsible for headgasket symptoms? also look how cruddy my back 4 intake ports are.

mjr46

uhhhhhhhhh that's some nasty looking coolant in there looks like a water milk mix.....that gasket there that was misinstalled will cause a nasty oil leak and when you put it back together I always ditch the end gaskets and run a thick bead of the RIGHT STUFF .by permatex FTW!!!

my77stang

yeah really dude, those end gaskets NEVER get used

kweb288

that looks pretty f-d up man, i would get a razor blade and scrape/cut all that **** off, then get some mineral spirits (be careful because it is dangerous/lights on fire) and use a rag to clean all that **** up. Then get some new gaskets put RTV on both side of the gasket and never look back. GO WITH FELPRO they make some of the best gaskets and i love them.....as far as all the other stuff goes, you may want to drain your oil beffore you start it up and do a full oil change/ tryand get as much of that milky stuff out so you dont sieze the engine up when you start it

kweb288

i use them, so sometimes they do get used its all personal preforance

FivePointOhh

what it looks like is they used the wigglycork gasket and put the wrong on back there or put it on upside down or something. btw it looks nasty up there, clean that shyte up

86GT 93LX

the milky crap is coolant that has stop leak in it, maybe oil too, but no coolant in my oil as far as i can tell. its getting changed anyways. yep got all felpro stuff the lower gasket comes with rubber end peices, i just gotta get some rtv.
yeah this things a mess for sure, look like the front end peice leeked all over hell too
theres like 1/4" thick crap on the top of my bellhousing!!
about to pull the heads here in a few minutes.
what belt do i need to delete my a/c pump?

Shelty

man that looks terrible. I used the rubber ends (blue silicone IIRC) as well as RTV where it was needed and it sealed up tight for me... of course I bolted my intake on when the motor was outta the car so I could get at all the bolts easily..

man, who owned your car before you? I remember seeing the pics when you first got it when it had the circle headlights and the "foam bondo" on the quarter...

take care when scraping that stuff off, you dont wanna knick the mating surfaces....

86GT 93LX

these are the factory gaskets, at least on the head side of the intake. still say ford E6 something stamped in. all nice and crisppy too
no clue who owned it before the guy who had it for a month parked under a cover...just know it came from a guy who owned a shop and one of his shop helpers did all that crap to it and never bought it from the owner so he sold it to the guy who sold it to me cus he didnt want to do the body work.
so its at 227k now. obvisouly looks to never have been touch except the upper intake looks to have been removed at one time, plus its missing the 5.0 cover plate. heres a few more pics for amusment

kweb288

man should of put some roller rockers on it while you had it apart