orion84gsl

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Today I fired Nikki up, just to make sure she was still running, and while I was mounting my new Holley FPR, I noticed something that was never there before. Sitting on the front housing between it and the intake manifold was a puddle of coolant. There was also a good amount on the tarp underneath the car. Now I'm almost positive it's the O-rings in the manifold leaking, but I just wanted to throw this out there to see if anyone else had any ideas, before I go pulling the manifold off to put in freeze plugs. I have pictures, but they're on my home computer. I will load them up tomorrow at some point. Thanks guys.

Chris

Jeezus

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Hit the nail on the head with that one. You said you were going to replace them with freeze plugs, but if you want some O rings, I just picked up a new gasket today and not using them. Free if you like.

trochoid

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20 mm freeze plugs if you go that route. I mix up a little J-B Weld, put a thin layer on the mateing surface, then wipe a coating over the joint after the plugs are tapped in.

Vashner

Hum.. You double checked your radiator cap? I have seen it spew all over the place it that last turn is not on right.

orion84gsl

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No its definitly not the rad cap, I looked around at all my lines and the rad, and saw no coolant. I will double check but as I said, I'm pretty sure it's the mani. Thanks Jeezus but I'm just going to go with freeze plugs. And thats a good idea Troichoid, I was wondering if there was a better way then just putting some JB on the edge. Good thing I bought some over a year ago, now I finally have a use for it. Thanks for confirming my suspicions guys.

Chris

2fast2rotar

Its probably too late now, but i just sawed off 2 ends of a broom handle and widdeled 2 peices to hammer in.

worked just fine and I never had to leave the house or buy anything!!

Ghetto, but it works!!!!!

orion84gsl

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HAHA, hey whatever works right? I wound up spending about $50 at Carquest when all I really needed was 2 20mm plugs. Got them in and started stripping down the manifold. Hopefully it will stay warm enough here for me to finsih up soon.