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manifolds
Hi Pauly,
Yes I did receive your PM.
I have been sick the last couple of days and have not been in the office.
I put the manifolds in the car Sunday night to bring to you Monday.
I don't have any extra bolts for manifold to heads.The 2 manifolds both
have a stub of header pipe,the flanges and 3 bolts each on them.
Maybe tomorrow.Yeah I got your cell number.I will call when I'm back.
r.e. the broken off bolt;I had one of my exhaust mfld. bolts break off too
when I disassembled my engine.I had it removed at an automotive machine
shop for $12.I have never tried the PB Blaster that Oldsguy suggested.I will
be interested to see what kind of success you have if you try it.
I saw a neat method on the flathead Ford forum that you can do without
having to remove the head.
You need to slip a flat washer over the stub left when the bolt broke off.
Next you need to put a new nut on the end of the stub by welding it through
the hole in the nut.You pull the washer up to the back of the nut and weld
it on all sides and weld it as solid as you can.Then you use an impact wrench
(to avoid any bending moment from a hand wrench)and carefully,meaning
apply the force slowly,remove the bolt.
Sounds like a good excuse to pull the heads and take them in to get a valve
job done on them.The heads come off and go on pretty easy on these.The
exhaust system disconnect is usually the biggest problem from frozen bolts.
MickeyD
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