THANKS everyone, for your helpful replies. I bolted the carb on to the motor last night, and today I am off to NAPA to buy some new hoses and fuel filter etc. I appreciate everyones response. Hopefully I can get a couple of the cars out of the garage this winter and back on the road. Cheers, -Mike in Boring, Oregon On 11/2/07, GeoNort@xxxxxxx <GeoNort@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Mike. > I have never used any kind of gasket sealant on a carburetor gasket in all > my years of rebuilt engines or rebuilt carburetors. If you use the new > gasket > that came with the carb kit or purchases a new base gasket you should be > just > fine. There is no pressure on the intake side what so ever & the small > force > that is applied via vcaccum is nothing that will leak passed a properly > tightend base gasket. > > George > > > > ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com > ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com ----------------- This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the Administrators should be sent to iml.webmonster@xxxxxxxxx To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm