Parts for your 2020 Ford Escape-Manifold gasket

2020 Ford Escape manifold gasket: what it is, what it does, and when to replace it

Based on the Ford Workshop Manual for the 2020 Escape (WSM 303-01) and Ford’s electronic parts catalog illustrations, a manifold gasket is indeed used on this model. All engines have an intake manifold gasket. For the exhaust side, the 1.5L and 2.0L EcoBoost engines use an integrated exhaust manifold cast into the cylinder head (a design Ford details for its Dragon 1.5L and Gen 3 2.0L EcoBoost), so there’s no separate exhaust manifold gasket to the head on those variants. The 2.5L Atkinson-cycle hybrid/plug-in hybrid retains a conventional exhaust manifold and uses an exhaust manifold gasket.

On the 2020 Ford Escape, the manifold gasket’s day job is simple but critical: it seals the join between the manifold and the cylinder head so air, fuel vapours, and exhaust gases go exactly where they’re meant to. On the intake side that means no unmetered air sneaking in and leaning out the mix