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5 to 7 depending on experience.
Low Coolant. Poor coolant circulation. Intake gasket. Head gasket.
you have to remove the front suspension, and the cradle or frame that is bolted and holds the engine in.that is the only way to get to the oil pan.
A flange spreader is a device that uses a ratchet, leverage and fulcrum points to spread a bolt together connection. Usually welded pipe to flange, then a seal or gasket, and then another flange, and then welded or threaded pipe carries on. A flange spreader is used to spread the flanges apart to change a gasket or put in a spec blind to blank either side of the connection.
an exhaust flange gasket, is the gasket,commonly called a donut that is used to seal where the exhaust pipe is bolted to the exhaust manifold
Diagonally
remove the four bolts holding it on. scrape all of the old gasket off. clean both sides with brake clean, cover both sides in RTV, stick the gasket on, bolt it on, and tighten.
Exhaust are longer than intake. Exhaust goes thru the loop in the gasket, intakes set outside gasket.
The most likely problem is a Head Gasket. Sorry Man.
I have a water leak in my 2004 Pontiac Montana between the drivers door and theseat,I was told it is the rubber gasket-that's in the floor,where the water drains,outside the Van,is this going to be a big job to repair???
You are OVERHEATING. You most likely have an intake or Head gasket problem.
parts and labor should run around $650