[Goatracer1]

Have you pressure tested the system? All too often I have seen the gasket blamed for a leak when it is actually the hose that is leaking. The fluid is seeping between the hose and the housing. The cheap screw clamps don't help the situation. You need the spring loaded type of clamp. Just a suggestion.

[Pepi]

Originally Posted by Goatracer1

Have you pressure tested the system? All too often I have seen the gasket blamed for a leak when it is actually the hose that is leaking. The fluid is seeping between the hose and the housing. The cheap screw clamps don't help the situation. You need the spring loaded type of clamp. Just a suggestion.

Yes, I have done that. I can actually see it seeping from the gasket area. That area that it does seep from has a lot of pitting/corrosion. I have also checked the bolt lengths and those are good.

As an update: I sanded it down after taking the alternator off and fuel line to the carb and removed my ported vacuum switches, so I would have more room to get to it. I used a large DA sander to be able to cover the whole area at once. It took quite a bit to get it all gone. So much that now the thermostat doesn't sit in the lip anymore on one side. I tried putting the thermostat housing back on without gasket or thermostat and I could fit a .013 feeler gauge under the middle of it on both the front and back. If you considered the sides where the bolts go.I put the housing on a piece of glass and tried checking that I had a hard time even getting a .0015 under it. So the housing is good and true.

I could send mine to a place in Michigan that can build the intake up and then machine it down and cut the lip into it so you wouldn't even be able to tell it was done. But HFR had an intake that had a date the next day from mine, so we worked out a deal. I'll post pictures tomorrow of my finished intake.