Bwdakrt, the gasket itself won't cause blocked oil passages, but gunk or a failed gasket can very easily get into the oil galleries and block them. When I took my plenum apart I spent several hours cleaning out gunk to restore oil flow. I also put in some low-grade oil in with a extra high dose of SeaFoam for about 10 hours of running the engine on non-loading tasks, then drained the oil, and after that my oil has stayed very clean.

 

Now I see your meaning...trash in the oil galley. If the OP didn't have an old rag covering the oil galley while scraping off the old gasket then it's a very good possibility. A shop vac makes for a real good cleaner upper.

 

Right. I personally don't know if I would want to oil up the inside of my shop vac!

 

You soak up all the oil in the galley before you place the rag inside the galley and start scraping gasket material. The shop is an extra precaution and very little if any oil will get inside.

 

Ok I get it

 

Hi there all, thanks for the quick responses!!
As it is turkey day, i'm not going to dick with it.

I meant to edit my original post, there isn't any oily smoke, alas it was 4:30 in the morning my time and I was at the point where I was about to roll it off a cliff. I will try re-torquing the manifold tomorrow. In the mean time I have drained the cooling system for fear off hydro-locking the engine.

If I didn't work 10-12 hour days at work I would love to take the time to try everything you have all mentioned.


I will fill you all in tomorrow when I gather the muster to go back under the hood.


P.S. The plenum isn't hard, just take your time, start the project when you have plenty of time to finish, I was in a rush so I suspect that is where part of my problem has originated from. It has taken me about 8 hours spread across two nights...late late nights...

 

No oil through intake. Oil to rockers comes through head form block. I suspect intake gaskets not lined up correctly against heads. Also, bot changing the plenum plate may increase the liklihood of having to do this task again. Did you change timing set at the same time? Would have been anexcellent opportunity.

I agree with NOt running this engine in its current condition. Soing so will necesitate finding another engine!

 

K, I envy you! Your tongue must hurt, I don't know how you do it? Anyways, I used mine just without the filter on..icky but not to bad

 

How do I do what?

 

Bite your tongue? I know, you already told me a while back..I just wish I had your tolerence for the ******** You're to nice eh!