81 L6 300 exhaust leak
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81 L6 300 exhaust leak
so I recently bought this truck for quite cheap with the purpose of restoring it and making it my daily and small job hauling truck. it is however a running truck just with multiple small issues. one of which being an exhaust leak. I went and bought a new manifold gasket and apparently put it on incorrectly.
Then I started removing the entire exhaust and air intake system to include the carb, EGR valve, EGR valve spacer, and the exhaust and intake manifolds
Apparently theres a quite specific way to install the gasket on the manifolds for it to seat correctly and the gasket gave very vague instructions. If anyone has experience replacing this gasket please help me out here.
Also for bias I think I'm going to buy a brand new set of the exhaust and intake manifolds because one has 2 bolts broke off that I cant seem to remove and the other had a piece with one of the bolt holes chip off
Then I started removing the entire exhaust and air intake system to include the carb, EGR valve, EGR valve spacer, and the exhaust and intake manifolds
Apparently theres a quite specific way to install the gasket on the manifolds for it to seat correctly and the gasket gave very vague instructions. If anyone has experience replacing this gasket please help me out here.
Also for bias I think I'm going to buy a brand new set of the exhaust and intake manifolds because one has 2 bolts broke off that I cant seem to remove and the other had a piece with one of the bolt holes chip off
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MRStace84
1980 - 1986 Bullnose F100, F150 & Larger F-Series Trucks
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01-09-2003 09:39 PM