To start off this may be a long post. Alright, First problem is I am having trouble getting intake to seal to timing cover. Removed intake and replace gasket and seal now it is leaking worse then before. Followed all instruction proberly and even replace bolt that pulls intake tight to timing cover but still coolant leak. Any thounghts on this? Maybe surface on timing cover is bad? This is a 1 year old edelbrock performer RPM intake.

Second problem is The gasket I am using is Mr. gasket part # 5848, Same gasket I used 1 year ago when putting new intake on engine. Gasket has close out for exhaust crossover but when I removed intake yesterday old gasket was BURNED out for crossover so it was then open. I know when installing gasket 1 year ago it was closed out.

Third problem, but all problems seem to be connected together in some way. I had many problems with overheating last summer when new intake was added, Winter didn't seem to be as bad but temp still acked funny at times. Today I started engine up after letting gasket seat over night and retorqued all bolts, but after shutting engine off I could hear a noise in both heads that was never there it was a TINK,TINK,TINK metal noise (Capitalise to give better felling of how loud this nois was) comeing from inside valve covers. Last summer I had an infered heat sensor and aimed it at cylinder heads near exhaust ports while running and temp was around 600 degres and the rest of cylinder heads were around 350-400, the rest of engine was around normal temp. Could my heads be burring up some how? collant stoped up from flowwing thru? I have heard somewhere that 400 cylinder head gaskets are different the 350 engines but don't know what previous owner did to engine (many things have been shade tree worked on) I hate to remove heads as I have had many problems with removing other thing on engine to replace as previos owner half a**ed and striped out many bolts. I could go on and on right now but will hold up till I get some responses on this one. I am calling all troops so if you ever had sutch a problem or know someone who has or know about cylinder heads PLEASE give me some advice.

Stephen