We were back at it on Sunday. Our next step was to reinstall the intake manifold. A friend had offered to give us a hand with it because it's heavy but since we were there with gaskets ready, we decided to give it a try ourselves.
One note about the photo shown above. It's taken from video and it appears that the engine is rusty. It isn't. Our lighting consists of four clip-on lights, each with one of those compact fluorescent bulbs. They give off a weird light that I have to set the camera to compensate for and I haven't bothered to do that so far. Anyway, everything is shiny and bright.
The manifold is more awkward than heavy. There's really no place to grab the back of it without getting your fingers between the manifold and the block. After putting on the four gaskets, being careful to add some extra sealant at the corners, we put the manifold in place. And yes, we used Permatex Black Gasket Maker on all the surfaces before we started.
On this particular engine, the position of the mounting bolt holes makes putting the new bolts in really time consuming. We've shown a little of that in the video. Only an offset box wrench seems to work on the five or six most difficult ones. Figuring out how to torque them down will be a challenge. But, everything about this job has been a challenge to some degree, so we'll figure that out too.
Our video is short, which I'm sure most of our friends are thankful for.
As we write this early evening on January 25, we're being bombarded with news of a big blizzard heading our way. Yikes, I'll bet the supermarket is out of bread. What do people do with all that bread? This is New England, after all. It snows here. Get used to it!
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