Weber Vacuum Leak Hell

[benjamachine]

Ok. I'm back with the $@&^$ Weber. I've narrowed ALL of my woes down to vacuum leaks.

 

Is there ANY way to keep these from happening without taking off the intake manifold and having the gasket surface planed? That's a lot of extra work I'd rather not have to deal with (I know, lazy, but there's this job and all). Anyway, definitely wishing I had left well enough alone and stuck with the craptachi. It actually worked properly.

 

What about JB Weld on the adapter to manifold mating surface? I've been having problems with coolant leaking out of that passage in the intake as well. Plugged it up with JB Weld, but it still leaks.