manifold sacrifice
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Tuned
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manifold sacrifice
Spent the day trying to separate a 226 intake/exhaust manifold. 48 hours with release juice on bolts and about 4 hours of heating and beating. nurmerous wood wedges and steel. No go. Made a choice, save the exhaust. cut and shattered the intake. Not feeling good about it, not to mention all the time wasted. yea exhaust made it, but snapped a stud. Frustrating.............
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You aren't in bad shape...it is easier to find a replacement 226 intake than an exhaust manifold. There is one for sale on E-Bay right now.
Heating and beating....I've had to do that a lot to the '49. It was sitting outside in a junkyard for 47 years.
I spent today trying to straighten an F3 tailgate. For the past two weeks I had 700 pound of wood pellet bags stacked on it to remove a nasty warp. I removed the bags today and...BOING...it went right back to a potato chip shape.
So out came the bottle propane torch, wood blocks and three sized hammers. Did it in the cellar while the wife was away. The cat is still hiding from all the noise.
But I got about 80% of the warp out. One more drum session and it'll be better.
Tom
Heating and beating....I've had to do that a lot to the '49. It was sitting outside in a junkyard for 47 years.
I spent today trying to straighten an F3 tailgate. For the past two weeks I had 700 pound of wood pellet bags stacked on it to remove a nasty warp. I removed the bags today and...BOING...it went right back to a potato chip shape.
So out came the bottle propane torch, wood blocks and three sized hammers. Did it in the cellar while the wife was away. The cat is still hiding from all the noise.
But I got about 80% of the warp out. One more drum session and it'll be better.
Tom
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I guess it would have been to get at the frozen heat riser. to attempt a repair. You never figure a job would be so tough and once your set on it you forget to stand back and second guess do I really need to separate. Not that the heat riser is all that important from what Ive read.
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