5.3 Water channel gaskets where do they go?

[Rick tottingham]

They came in a intake gasket kit a bought wonder where they go?

 

[iamdub]

Those are for the steam vent tube bosses. This is a pic of the frontward end of the heads where the tubes bolt down, the rear is the same but it may just be two block-off pieces like it is in this pic. :

 

[01ssreda4]

Yep that is correct.