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In the spirit of "does it ever f'n end"...

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gwstang

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I have another friggin' antifreeze leak from the damn upper water outlet. I am beginning to think it is because of the two dissimilar metals, alum intake and steel water outlet. I would think they heat up and expand and then cool down at different rates. What ever the f#&k the delta heat loss and all that other physics bs I have long since forgotten..lol. Tightened it up a little and I think it stopped. I am damned afraid to get too much torque on those bolts as the aluminum strips very easily :rant BTDT.
 
It's not a chrome water neck, is it? Those are prone to leaking.

FYI, I'm using a nice alum water neck ($20 IIRC) with my alum intake and it blends in nicely, no leaks.

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Lets try something different. Let me fix your car and you fix mine. Mabe we can both fix the problems and they won't come back. :thu I think all my crap is from a Midlife curse. :shrug
 
"68EFIvert" said:
Lets try something different. Let me fix your car and you fix mine. Mabe we can both fix the problems and they won't come back. :thu I think all my crap is from a Midlife curse. :shrug
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WhaddidIdo????? :wtf
 
Do you have any idea what Mid's gonna do with that pic??
 
"SAC69" said:
It's not a chrome water neck, is it? Those are prone to leaking.

FYI, I'm using a nice alum water neck ($20 IIRC) with my alum intake and it blends in nicely, no leaks.

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Unfortunately it is. Where ddi you find the aluminum at?
 
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"68EFIvert" said:
Lets try something different. Let me fix your car and you fix mine. Mabe we can both fix the problems and they won't come back. :thu I think all my crap is from a Midlife curse. :shrug
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Uh-oh! Midlife actually touched my car once. The old engine that was in there at the time, did pee on his driveway..lol.
 
"I bought it at Mustang's Plus several years ago.

here's a link from their website:"

Thanks, I bookmarked it and will try this winter.
 
"This is the one I run. It has an oring seal. I had it on and off about 5 times before I decided to replace the oring. Have not had any leaks since I started using it."

I had one with the O-Ring a few years back and it leaked after a year or so.
 
Okay guys, I figured out what the problem was. I had to change intakes from an aluminum (busted hole where one of the bolts went to to the water outlet (upper) long story, wrong bolt on top. :rant
So I picked up a Professional Products intake that the local speed shop had on sale. It's chromed steel. I reused the "aluminum" water outlet that came with the 5.0HO engine that I rebuilt and am now using. I had tried the efi, but failed (figured out why and will go back this winter and do it right), so I pulled off the efi intake and installed the aluminum intake that I then busted the hole (efi bolts were too long for the old alum intake). New chrome steel intake + aluminum outlet = eventual fail of the seal. Two different metals expanding and retracting at different rates. I dug around in the buckets of mustang parts (yeah you all have them...lol) and found a nice steel one that I had purchased some time ago and painted blue. Put it on this a.m. hopefully problem solved! :hs
 
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