Psychostang
Dedicated LVC Member
Just wanted to give a heads up to anyone out there that might be replacing the upper and lower manifold gaskets on there 1996 mark 8s, to a problem that I ran into. I ordered both upper and lower gaskets from advance auto, back in the middle of july. When I went to reinstall the manifold, I noticed the upper gaskets didn't fit right. So I took them back to advance and looked up the p/n again, for a 1996 model year. It showed the same gasket that I was given. Went to autozone and napa and they showed the same gasket. I believe all of these companies are on the same database, which is wrong. They show a 97-98 p/n gasket as fitting the 96. You must ask for a 1993-5 model year gasket. So if in the future, the parts person shows you an upper gasket that has square and round holes, with a babyblue double lip seal around the gasket circumference, it is for a 97-98 model year.