I happen to agree, I always thought it was. It sounds too much like the problems I had at first. It seems anytime you pull that manifold, you need to just replace the gasket. That's what happened to me. I pulled it and tried to reuse the old gasket. Never did seal so I had to reinstall a cereal box manifold. Clean off the old one carefully so you get a clean flat surface for the new one.

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