Here is a picture of the old lower intake Gasket from my 1997 Park Ave. You can see why you may want to replace them. This car only has 62K on it.

http://home.att.net/~SAM5150/GASKET.jpg



Here is another picture. This degradation was present at each coolant passage on the gasket.

http://home.att.net/~SAM5150/GASKET2.jpg

http://home.att.net/~SAM5150/GASKET.jpg

I changed the url tag to img. Go to pic image properties or edit/quote and you will see the form/syntax.