This proves that all the gunk on the intake is from before - this engine has been sitting ~4.5 months and the valley almost looks fresh-from-the-crate.
These intake gaskets only have ~30Kmi, but the coolant system was severely abused & neglected, which is why the gaskets are in such horrible condition around those journals (the 4 frontmost & rearmost).
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This was the truck's original engine:
![04intake3.jpg This proves that all the gunk on the intake is from before - this engine has been sitting ~4.5 months and the valley almost looks fresh-from-the-crate.
These intake gaskets only have ~30Kmi, but the coolant system was severely abused & neglected, which is why the gaskets are in such horrible condition around those journals (the 4 frontmost & rearmost).
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This was the truck's original engine:
[url=https://www.supermotors.net/registry/media/72461][img]https://www.supermotors.net/getfile/72461/thumbnail/valleygunk.jpg[/img][/url]](https://www.supermotors.net/getfile/1048204/fullsize/04intake3.jpg)