I have replaced the heads and intake on the engine with new ones, and powder coated the intake (not the mating surface). Ever since then, I have re-done the valve cover gaskets 3 times! I kept suspecting they are leaking. But not down towards the headers, but on the top side, onto the intake. I am attempting to attach some pics. You can see where the blue intake gasket is wet with oil. And the head/exhaust is dry. Am I changing the wrong gaskets chasing this leak?:mad:
I am new to the Checy engine, as I have always been a Ford guy in the past. What is the trick to these 4-bolt covers?:confused:
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Did you use white teflon sealer on the intake bolts? Some of them go right into the lifter gallery. I bet the oil is seeping out the threads of the intake bolts.

Dave

Did you use white teflon sealer on the intake bolts? Some of them go right into the lifter gallery. I bet the oil is seeping out the threads of the intake bolts.

Dave

yep, me too. I think the 8 inner bolt threads go right into the lifter galley (meaning the front 2 bolts and the rear 2 bolts are not going to leak because the threads end in the head casting. You can also put RTV on the trhreads when you bolt it on.