I'm still work'n on the pimpala motor try'n to get her runnin right so last night (after replacing the thermostat the night before and runnin her for a good while to make sure she didn’t overheat) I noticed some antifreeze leak'n on top of the Intake Manifold.

Well I knew that wasn’t good so I figured I'd retork all the Manifold bolts. Got to the bolt over the #2 cylinder were she was leak'n and gave it a turn and it felt a little soft. I knew right then the bolt was gonna snap off and it did.

That aint good... so I start tear'n her back down again. You would think I'm actually gett'n pretty good at this wrench'n stuff as it only took me about an hour to get it back down to the block and heads again. That went pretty good and I even got the broken bolt out without to much fuss and a little sweet talk'n with a pair of Vice Grips.

I hate doing things twice and want to make Dam sure I don't have to do it a third time so what do you guy's do when putting on the Intake Manifold. The first time I followed the directions, made sure everything was clean and placed enough silicon gasket adhesive to hold the gasket in place with some extra in the corners. I used the gray colored gasket adhesive which said for use on Intake Manifolds?

Is this not an aggressive enough sealant / adhesive? Would the red or blue gasket adhesive work better instead?

Should I be putting more around the areas that seal up just the cooling system or coat the heck out of both sides of the gasket and let'r ooze out the sides?

Let me know what you think?