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FE Power Forums => FE Technical Forum => Topic started by: jholmes217 on August 12, 2017, 01:53:58 PM
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I put a Streetmaster on my 428 about a month ago. I keep finding a small pool of oil in the area around the second from back on the drivers side intake bolt. This is one of those bolts that is hard to get a wrench on because it is so close to the runner. The bolt has a washer on it (ARP intake manifold bolts set.)
Has anyone had this issue, and if you did, how did you fix it?
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Are you sure it isn't the valve cover gasket?
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Are you sure it isn't the valve cover gasket?
Pretty sure. Ran a shop towel along the valve cover area and it was pretty clean.
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Fixed! I ground one edge of a washer flat so it could bottom out on the runner side of the intake manifold, then used a little "The Right Stuff" on the intake side of the washer, and went for a test drive. Leak fixed! Thanks to Larry H and Chris McAlpine for the suggestion on the other FE forum.
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I was wondering if maybe it wasn't sitting all the way down.
I figured you already checked that.
Good catch.
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On My streetmaster i made a "tool" to spotface each boltholes
And used a washer under each bolt . The first tool i made
Same dia as the washer since i thought the holes
would be in the right place. They where of a lot i ended up
With having to file one hole oval to be able to center the dist.
In the Pic is the cutter i made from some toolsteel i had .it cut
aluminium without heattreatment. I made tooths on the side of
The cutter for those holes close to the runners. Next is the bushing
with a light pressfit for the bolt hole and next is the M8 bolt that
the cutter is threaded for. So i hammered the bushing Into the
hole from the bottom inserted the bolt threaded the cutter on the bolt
And just rotated it with a ratchet and Held a light pressure on the
Cutter