Which dealer are you going to? Osbourne Kia in Lakewood has had that gasket in stock twice for me, one for each vehicle.

Chris Vernon
Golden, Colorado

you said they don't stock alot of parts for a '95. does that mean that they are ordering you a paper gasket? because the metal one they should have in stock, i could see why they wouldn't stock the paper one. make sure you aren't getting the paper one. and don't take any bull about it being different and the metal one won't work, thats all just a line of you know what.

matt

I called today to get a new motor for the windshield washer (doggie squirter) and told him if he had to order the gasket to get me plug wires and he said; Oh I found the gasket that you need. He was looking for the gasket to the manifold I guess so they are delivering everything tomorrow.
I should be able to get the plugs put in this weekend and hopefully that will help how it gets off the line. I also got the anti seize stuff so parts wise I'm ready to start this little project.

I had bought a new gasket when I did my plugs. When I took the intake apart the thing was in perfect condition. So I saved the new one for the next time and re-used the old one with no problems to date. It's a paper type with both sides finished. Go figure <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Originally posted by joer4x4:
<strong>I had bought a new gasket when I did my plugs. When I took the intake apart the thing was in perfect condition. So I saved the new one for the next time and re-used the old one with no problems to date. It's a paper type with both sides finished. Go figure <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helv, Helvetica, Sans">Don't bet the farm on this. You got lucky. I tried the same thing the first time I changed the plugs and Mr Murphy struck. As soon as I tried to separate the intake pipe from the manifold the gasket started to split. I was able to button everything back up and didn't wind up with an air leak. So had to make a trip to the dealer for the steel gasket and take everything apart again. And yes, the original paper gasket broke into two pieces when I pulled it apart.

Well I finally got around to changing those plugs. I went ahead and bought some new wires since I didn't want to go back in there again for a while.
The plugs you have to buy from the dealer so I got them along with the gasket.
I used the directions from someone here on the board and they really helped out. When I took the air intake pipe (or whatever you call it) off the gasket stayed in one piece. In fact it came apart really easy.
All the plugs came out easy except the last one. I seemed to be a little tighter then the rest and when I got it out it had little pieces of metal on the threads so I hope I don't have to change that one again. It also had oil all over the threads when I pulled it out.
The neighbor said that won't hurt as long as it's not getting into the fire chamber.
All in all it went really well.It still didn't make it run much better so I need to do something else to help get this thing off the line.

I also have the lifter chatter even after it has been running for a while. Is there anyway of getting rid of that easly?????????????????????

use synthetic motor oil and mid-octane gasoline, mine use to get it anytime the temp outside got above 95 degrees, now never does it.

dave <img border="0" alt="[Rat]" title="" src="graemlins/rodent.gif" />

I used Mobil 1 synthetic and it got rid of alot of the chatter noise. It is still there but not nearly as loud and I am thinking about putting in some Red Line Oil or getting some of that Lucas Oil Treatment. The mechanics here swear by the Lucas treatment.

Bill