Follow that techinfo article. It'll cost you about $300 to do it yourself.

when i take the upper and lower intakes off how will i know if i need to replace the upper intake and what gaskets will i need ? is it just the upper and lower gaskets and elbow or is there more.im hoping to keep my cost as low as possible cause i havent worked in a year now for health reasons and cash is very tight

just got done spent 417.00 in parts changed top end of motor finally got her started to find her puffing white smoke from under the heads and out the exhaustif it wernt for bad luck i would have none at all i guess shes parked for the year now i cant spend anymore money on her

Did you ever change the oil?

Let'* back up here... What exactly did you change on it?

If you didn't change the oil, then you can kiss that motor goodbye. The coolant will eat at the bearings.

yes i changed the oil the filter the upper and lower intake gaskets and o rings i now have anti freeze and white smoke coming out the bottom of the front head gasket area and the exhaust but it didnt smoke at all when it quit running on saterday i thought at first the exhaust smoke was just resadue burning off from in the cylenders untill i saw it coming from the head

Did you install a new upper intake manifold? Did you install a new throttle body gasket? A new Upper Intake Manifold (UIM), UIM gasket, injector o-rings, TB gasket, aluminum frame Lower Intake Manifold (LIM) gaskets, and new coolant elbow can be had for less than $200 as specified in the Techinfo article linked for you above.

It is highly unlikely that coolant would be leaking from your cylinder head gasket to the outside of the car. Not impossible, but not very likely. Coolant leak to the outside is often a bad throttle body gasket. It could also be something really simple, like the bleeder valve on the gooseneck left open or a bad seal on the thermostat housing.

Can you list for us all the parts that you changed or had changed? Did you read Techinfo article 38?

i changed the lower intake gasket upper intake gasket thermostat gasket throttle body gasket fuel injector o rings new bypass elbow put on new belt tensioner assembly new spark plugs and new oil &filter but there is white steam puffing out the front of the cylender head ive drained the oil again and im going out to pull all the top end stuff off again now

Can you describe exactly where the steam is coming from or post a video of it.

i would show yu a video but i have it tworn apart again, just a question, should there be anti-freeze the top plenum and lower intake? thanks

did you follow all torque specs when you did this the first time?

and did you change the upper intake, and egr tube, or just the gasket?

cuz i dont know where the $400+ went. you can get an upper intake kit, and lower gaskets for less than 200.