Intake Elbow Leaking..

[4tonGT40]

Anybody have any tricks/ideas to stop the intake elbow from leaking oil. Its not leaking much but it will eventually drip on my drive belt. I thought of using insta-gasket like when replacing a waterpump. The kit came with a gasket from Ford. Is there a better one out there?

 

[Jhaddox]

Is it an elite/Rudys cfm elbow...If it is they came out with a new design to stop the leak, they were giving the new ones free if you sent the old one back iirc idk if their doin that anymore

But if that's what you have it's worth a shot

 

[O2ShootTheJ]

mine wasn't free. Was about 25 bucks I think...

 

[Jhaddox]

mine wasn't free. Was about 25 bucks I think...

Oh ok wasn't sure I thought they were doin a free swap or something when they first came out

 

[Jeff@Spartan]

It's the adapter plate that was redesigned, right?

 

[O2ShootTheJ]

Oh ok wasn't sure I thought they were doin a free swap or something when they first came out

so did I

It's the adapter plate that was redesigned, right?

Yea, I paid a $80 core charge, then sent my original one back and I think I got $55 back or something. It was a while ago

 

[4tonGT40]

yeah its the Elite plate and the elbow im not sure.I did buy it from Rudys, about 2-4 weeks ago, I would assume i would have gotten the "new" design stuff. What exactly do they replace? The gasket or the other parts?

 

[Jhaddox]

yeah its the Elite plate and the elbow im not sure.I did buy it from Rudys, about 2-4 weeks ago, I would assume i would have gotten the "new" design stuff. What exactly do they replace? The gasket or the other parts?

On the adapter plate there are grooves for 2 rubber seals, one on top of the adapter to seal against the elbow and one to seal against the block, did you put the rubber seals on the top and bottom

 

[4tonGT40]

i didnt install it, but im almost positive mine came with 1= O-ring thats round but kinda squared off with ribs in it, and a flat gasket to press against the elbow...i do remember seeing groves on the top and bottom of the Elite plate. So should i remove the upper gasket and replace it with an O-ring like the lower?

 

[Jhaddox]

i didnt install it, but im almost positive mine came with 1= O-ring thats round but kinda squared off with ribs in it, and a flat gasket to press against the elbow...i do remember seeing groves on the top and bottom of the Elite plate. So should i remove the upper gasket and replace it with an O-ring like the lower?

There should be an o ring in each groove and then I also used the gasket in mine...the 2nd o ring is what seals off the oil problem that people were having

 

[4tonGT40]

ill check it. Im almost positive there is only 1 Oring. Thanks Man.. Do you by any chance know what the part # is for the Oring and gasket? Or what this elbow was intended to fit?

 

[Jhaddox]

ill check it. Im almost positive there is only 1 Oring. Thanks Man.. Do you by any chance know what the part # is for the Oring and gasket? Or what this elbow was intended to fit?

The o ring I have no idea, if there are grooves on both sides and only one o ring just call Rudys or elite, the o ring isn't a ford factory part, as for the gasket it's a 6.0 intake elbow to manifold gasket and the cfm was made for the 6.0

 

[4tonGT40]

The o ring I have no idea, if there are grooves on both sides and only one o ring just call Rudys or elite, the o ring isn't a ford factory part, as for the gasket it's a 6.0 intake elbow to manifold gasket and the cfm was made for the 6.0

Thanks

 

[Ipkyss]

One o-ring comes with it. The other you take out of the factory elbow/egr and reuse it.

 

[Jhaddox]

One o-ring comes with it. The other you take out of the factory elbow/egr and reuse it.

There were 2 new ones in mine? Pretty sure I didn't reuse one, but if you can reuse one that means that they are oem

 

[O2ShootTheJ]

I had to reuse my old one and received one new one with my replacement

 

[Jhaddox]

Maybe that is how it was on mine, idk? I might be wrong

 

[benbou00]

Mine came with one o-ring and the other one came from my stock intake elbow.

 

[Jhaddox]

Ok well there's your answer...the other one is in your stock elbow if you have it, if not it's a factory part if it came in the elbow so your dealer can get it for you

 

[4tonGT40]

One o-ring comes with it. The other you take out of the factory elbow/egr and reuse it.

can i use the Factory o ring on the elbow side?