1992 Aerostar with an intake manifold gasket leak.

[arfive]

Unfortunately, my '92 Ford Aerostar will be spending the winter in the garage due to a leak in the lower manifold gasket. I was hoping to find some pictures of this repair here on the forum. So far I have removed the battery, air hose including the box that the air filter is in, alt and moved the ac compressor off to the side. And drained all the coolant which was mostly water. Very important since we will have below freezing temps soon.

 

[BrooklynBay]

Welcome to this forum! Which engine do you have? Do you have a coolant leak or a vacuum leak from the intake manifold gasket (or both)? I'll move this thread into the Aerostar section.

 

[arfive]

It's '92 extended length Eddie Bauer and has 4.0L engine. It has a coolant leak....

 

[Josh P]

Welcome to the forum, any info in particular you are looking for?

 

[BrooklynBay]

Connect a cooling system pressure tester to help locate the leak. Sometimes coolant could drip or spray from a pin hole from a hose, and appear like a gasket is leaking.

 

[zenish]

my 3.0 was leaking into cylinder one bad after i made the mistake of using super flush in the radiator.i bought a stop leak at advanced auto for head gasket leaks.so far its working.

 

[don-ohio]

Unfortunately, my '92 Ford Aerostar will be spending the winter in the garage due to a leak in the lower manifold gasket. I was hoping to find some pictures of this repair here on the forum. So far I have removed the battery, air hose including the box that the air filter is in, alt and moved the ac compressor off to the side. And drained all the coolant which was mostly water. Very important since we will have below freezing temps soon.

You say it's the LOWER intake manifold? These were known to leak at the upper manifold on the driver's side toward front. I had one leak there. don-ohio ^)