Re: Intake Gasket Failure Question

I am a member of this club, 98 Lumina 3.1 once when it was under warranty 
and now again at almost 80k!  I plan on replacing the coolant fluid with
the 
good old fa****on Prestone green antifreeze.  Does anyone think all this 
trouble may be from the new dex coolant or just crappy design?


"****den_kai" <violet_lightening_modified@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> nospam.clare.nce@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> How can you blame it on the technicians or poor preparation on a
>> factory new engine? It is GM's fault - pure and simple. A design that
>> uses low clamping loads combined with gasket materials that cannot
>> seal under low clamp load conditions is poor design, no ifs, ands, or
>> buts about it.
>
> I was talking about the RTV section of the gasket.  Eventually
> they all do leak, but I and other techs that I know that take the
> time to use RTV properly don't see the intake gasket back leaking
> from the RTV very often.  But the one's that dont take care, usually
> are re-doing them.
>
> The entire engine design is suspect....but you are right, bean counters
> will do us in.
>
> Ian
>