First thanx to '87FAKE-IROC-Z,ron rizzotti & Omar for answering my plea for help on removing the fuel rail.

Now my problem is getting the old gasket material off of the runners and mostly the intake manifold (still on motor. I was able to remove the bulk of it because there is some metal mesh holding them together, but some of the material is baked on and razor blades barely move it, is there a solvent or technique that i need to know about?

Thanx.....

 

Find somebody that has a gasket grinder.
It looks like an angle die grinder, but it uses scotch pads turning at 10K rpm to scour off the gasket material. There are different pads for different metals - steel, aluminum, etc...
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i used a bench grinder with a wire whell attachment.had that old **** off in two minutes

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I have a drill, can I just use some kind of attatchment, brush or whatever to get it off? im afraid of scratching the alluminum serfaces.

 

try going to Home Depot, you might be able to find something there for drill attachment stuff.. and if you (by accident) get the wrong item, you can always return it.

Otherwise, I've always used either a wire brush attachment to a die grinder (should work for a drill) or as mentioned earlier, one of those scour pad things on an angle die grinder.

Apparently there's some kind of solvent that you can spray on old gaskets and it just eats away at it, and you can use a gasket scraper. I'm not sure what it's called, because my old classmate was using it when he was doing a head gasket swap at his house.

 

thanx , I went and found a wire brush adaptor for my drill and it worked fine, much better than i expected, I still had to cut much of it down with the razor, but once the brush went to work it was easy from there.