jws123
Senior Member
I have done a bunch harbor freight belt sander takes sometime but it works.Makes me wonder if a belt sander can actually hog enough met to get them flat enough to stop leaking?
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I have done a bunch harbor freight belt sander takes sometime but it works.Makes me wonder if a belt sander can actually hog enough met to get them flat enough to stop leaking?
You know, I've been thinking this through for a long time. It seems that the bolts that tend to break are the ones holding the heat shields on. I know that the manifolds tend to warp, and I have gotten a "seasoned" set of used manifolds and had them planed flat at a machine shop and am waiting to put them on my truck with the Remflex gaskets. But, I'm thinking that I am going to remove my heat shield nuts and heat shield. The logic being that maybe the second nut securing the heat shield is making these four bolts too rigid and not allowing them to expand and contract as the other bolts which are less prone to breaking, therefore leading to the broken bolts of the heat shield.I find that using the factory bolts, did the best for me to reuse the factory heat shields, I got mine from RockAuto, and for sure the Remflex gaskets.
It really wasn't hard to get them out, and the passenger side is definitely easier.Yeah, I'm between a rock and a hard place what to do. Getting mighty creaky to do this myself, my sons aren't around much anymore.
And my exhaust guy won't machine them, just buys that new design that breaks instead of the bolts. But man, can I ever hear that cold start exhaust tick on the right bank with hearing aids. Maybe I should just turn them off until the engine warms and ignore it.
If you get a chance, reach in through the wheel well and feel the corners of the heat shield.Yeah, I know. It's always easy for everyone but me. I'm not biting.
I haven't looked. Temp just dropped to the 20's (F) with howling winds and snow. But I can sure hear it, only from right front bank and only at cold start. Classic manifold exhaust leak symptom from a known leaker.
I'm not doing anything unless and until weather improves someday.