[Frank K]

I'm thinking of buying a '97- 2002 Chev Venture or a Pont. Montana van. I've read and have seen indications of head/ intake gasket trouble...Anyone here have one? I'm looking to see if your antifreeze levels stays the same or not. I want to see what kind of ratio there is to happy and unhappy owners, heard alot of bad so far. THANKS.
My Hot Rod is a 38 Chev 4dr. 461 Olds that has run 12.77 @ 104.55 with 3:08 Gears and a stock converter.

 

[Deuce]

heard alot of bad so far.

A fellow I work with has one for his wife........a 2001 Chevy I believe, and they have a boat load of problems.........all fixed under the warranty. They purchased the extended warranty package.

But they are looking to dump the van and do something else as soon as the payments stop.

 

[johnnymopar]

my brother has a '98? transport. we had to change the intake gaskets and it was a major pita. i think this is normally about a 12 hour job. all would have been fine except we stripped one of the rocker assembly bolts and i had to put a helicoil in there (of course it was at the back of the engine)

it was a lot of work but not impossible, just a lot of tight spaces, etc. had to pull off a lot of parts to get to the nitty gritty.

so other than that i guess it's ok. but whoever designed those engines that way should be forced to fix every one of them. stupid engineers!

JB