What's the difference between a blown head gasket and a blown intake gasket?
The head gasket goes between the block and the head, and seals the combustion process, and cooling water, and (if oil is pumped obove the heads to valve components) oil pressure.
Intake gaskets seal between the intake manifold and the head, and seal against intake vacuum, and in many cases, coolant.
A badly blown head gasket will so destroy compression in the cylinder that you can hear uneven cranking as that cylinder comes up on compression, kind of a “whir, whir, WHIR, whir, whir, WHIR, whir” with the capitalized whir being the engine spinning much faster due to no compression holding the starter back.
You will never be able to hear a problem with an intake manifold gasket until the engine actually starts to fire and/or run.
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