Valley Pan Gasket and Water Pump

[Helihover]

Originally Posted by diyanich

Remove the accumulator manifold and replace the gaskets.
If you don't it, will be a real pain to do it once they start leaking.
I've done the Valley Pan gasket and rear manifold at the same time,VP was seeping,and manifold was losing a lot.
Once I replaced that I had a Water pump gasket failed,after replacing the WP along the gasket,I had transmission heat exchanger x–rings leaking.
Conclusion is that replace as many gasket as you can at once.Unless you like to repeat the same process endlessly.

Awesome! This is what I was looking for. I plan to replace both acumulator gaskets along with the four o-rings/two pipes while in there.

Now I just have to decide when to do it. Maybe this weekend if BBQ and beers don't get in the way...

As far as replacing this and that "while in there"........ I started a list and I could not stop. It just kept going and going. So, one thing at a time

Thanks to everyone for there reply!

[diyanich]

IMO Valley Pan,rear manifold gaskets along the two cross pipes and o-rings are the must replace if you already got there.Add to that the intake manifold gaskets too.
The rest is relatively easily accessible later on.No urgent need to replace the Water pump(but it would be a good idea though). It's about $120 bucks,but once it's done you would pretty much have all the metal hardware secured and good to go for another while.Hoses are so easy to replace,same thing about the x-rings on a secondary thermostat and transmission heat exchanger,the only inconvenience is to flush the coolant every time there's a new leak.Keep in mind there may not be any at all,so...
I kept my original radiator.Here in Canada plastic seems to last longer due to a cooler climate,I guess.But my radiator plastic was like new and no leaks were present,all hoses too but one,that connects to a lower part of Water pump,it was leaking because of the flattened o–ring inside of the connector,otherwise the hose was as good as new.

Originally Posted by Helihover

Awesome! This is what I was looking for. I plan to replace both acumulator gaskets along with the four o-rings/two pipes while in there.

Now I just have to decide when to do it. Maybe this weekend if BBQ and beers don't get in the way...

As far as replacing this and that "while in there"........ I started a list and I could not stop. It just kept going and going. So, one thing at a time

Thanks to everyone for there reply!