Intake Gasket Set: What works, what to avoid

mulletmobile · Post by **mulletmobile** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 9:54 am

Read a lot of posts here and other places about how to install and everyone's opinion on their personal technique to install them, but no one really talked much about what to use and what to avoid. So please chime in if you have done the intake on your motor or helped a buddy with his or just worked on one at work: What intake gasket set works, what doesn't and why.

I pulled the carb on mine to do a swap but the intake had some concerning rust inside. Not just that light surface, but some flakey stuff. The PO had rigged a homemade cold air intake and The look is enough to concern me. I am going to need to pull it to be cleaned up/tanked. Plus I have an exhaust leak on the LH side. I figure a great time to fix that and if I break a bolt or two, I will not be too upset as I was pulling the intake anyhow.

Post by **Ranchero50** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 10:02 am

I absolutely despise Fel-Pro's thick gray felt intake gaskets. The multi layer pressed gaskets do well but the felt ones always fail quickly.

SeapineF37 · Post by **SeapineF37** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 11:29 am

agreed...

Ranchero50 wrote:I absolutely despise Fel-Pro's thick gray felt intake gaskets. The multi layer pressed gaskets do well but the felt ones always fail quickly.

i went with the fel-pro printoseal (fel-1246) rubberized style set when i just set my new edelbrock performer intake. set was $28 from summit but great fit and seems to be much better quality. used the grey sealer to set it and liking it so far.

mulletmobile · Post by **mulletmobile** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 7:42 pm

Thanks for the replies and recommendations. I read somewhere where there was an issue a few people had with a Fel-Pro gasket set, but I didn't bookmark or right down what exactly had been said. I have been trying to keep a notebook handy and writing down details for stuff like this, but again I didn't follow that pattern.

Post by **DuckRyder** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 7:56 pm

Fel Pro Print-O-Seal got a bad rap on FE forum for FE engines. I would steer toward the standard blue feb pro, or if you can source them - Victor.

tnlprt · Post by **tnlprt** » Mon Sep 12, 2016 8:20 pm

Printoseal intake gaskets on Fe engines with antifreeze do not last very long

colnago · Post by **colnago** » Mon Sep 12, 2016 10:38 pm

tnlprt,

Green antifreeze, or orange (or both)?

Joseph

Post by **Ranchero50** » Tue Sep 13, 2016 7:10 am

I think it was the 1200 series of gaskets that sucked, the 'performance' ones. They'd squeeze out or fall apart around the water passages. Silicone just made them squirt out easier. The blue stock replacements worked pretty well. You could even port match them without too much fuss.

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