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exhaust system => all exhaust related topics => Topic started by: cpetronis on March 26, 2012, 11:22:44 AM
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So I'm a very sad man beside myself with grief and dismay. The manifold assembly came off cleanly and more easily than I expected. As you know the exhaust portion is constructed of three cast pieces. My right side popped right out of the center portion. The left had side however was frozen in place. After some application of PB blaster I gently, or thought gently, tapped on it with my rubber mallet. I tapped too hard and broke the darn thing. It's out of the center piece now. I guess this means I need a new left hand side casting. I can't find anybody in my area who wants to tackle welding cast iron.
Does anybody on the board have a spare left side piece they want to get rid of? I seem to be up crap creek here.
Thanks,
Chris
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That sucks Chris...wish I could help. Keep posting about your exploits though so the rest of us can learn from your mistakes! ;D
-Tom
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Chris,
So did you ever get a replacement left side casting? Just wondering how your repairs went...
-Tom
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i one if you still need one.
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Hi there,
I've been up to my eyeballs in work and stuff so haven't had a chance to check back in here. As luck would have it, I've now actually got two. Wendell down in TN was kind enough to let me get his spare. At the same time Gary Hebling also found one in his warehouse. According to him I've bought the last spare he had, at this point he's only got complete manifold systems to sell.
So at this point I've cleaned everything up and put it back together with new gaskets and rings for the cast pieces. Putting it back on was another example of my stupidity. I basically got all the way through the job on after church but before Easter Sunday dinner only to realize at the end the there were two hex head bolts on the intake manifold that I should have put in the casting before assembling the exhaust portion. Yes, once again you can laugh at my distress.
That's what happens when several weeks go between when you take something apart and when you put it back together. In the intervening time I had forgotten about the placement of those bolts. I was rather angry to say the least. Since then however I've taken it back off, put in the bolts and reassembled it. Hopefully this weekend I'm going to put the carb back on and light this engine off. With my luck I'll find out that I didn't torque down the nuts correctly and blow another hole in my manifold gasket. I'm a gluten for punishment.
Regards,
Chris