Advice on Intake Gasket
 

Need some advice, any information would be cool.
1999 Chevy 5.0 Litre Vortec.....4x4.....Old Body Style. Never changed intake gasket on my truck. Could use some advice on how to do the job. Can anyone give me some advice. Would greatly appreciate it.:eek:

RE: Advice on Intake Gasket
 

not overly tough...but a couple of roadblocks.

the power steering pulley needs to come off.You can work around not taking it off,but that adds to trhe job a good bit.
you can not set the timing without a scanner,so you'd have to pay a shop to set it...WARNING...most indy shops don't use a scanner to set it,they guess....so look into it first.

we do em at this dealer for about 450 bucks...not super-high.

RE: Advice on Intake Gasket
 

I did mine on my 1998 in about 10 hours and put in new plugs, wires, distributo cap and rotor while I had the truck apart. By yourself a repair manual- I used a haynes and it helped out quite a bit. It's not a very tough job just make sure you take your time and remember the right order to put everything back together. And to do yourself a favor so you don't have to do the intake gaskets again fill the cooling system with regular green antifreeze. My intakes went out twice within 75,000 miles using the stock **** dex cool. Now I have 180,000 on the truck and the intakes are holding good running green antifreeze and change it every 2-3 years.