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Re: cracked exhausted manifold

To: svgkm@halley.ca.essd.northgrum.com
Subject: Re: cracked exhausted manifold
From: Ron Hamilton <ej99176@goodnet.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 16:40:41 -0700
Actually there is one other thing;
use a high nickel alloy filler as that is all that will stick to that strange 
metal .

Ron

svgkm@halley.ca.essd.northgrum.com wrote:

> Should be no trick at all to have it welded up - just make sure that they 
>stop drill the
> crack before welding, that is, drill a small hole at the end of the crack to 
>prevent it
> propagating further, then welding up the crack and the hole.
>
> Gary McCormick
> San José, CA
>   
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hoon Kim wrote:
>
> > subject says it all. What to do? Is it serious? How much and how hard
> > is it to replace a hairline cracked exhausted manifold. I never
> > noticed it before so I don't know if it's been there all along or if
> > it is new.
> >
> > My radiador sprung a leak so all my coolant leaked out, so I'm
> > suspecting that it happened then. Since then I have replaced my 2 row
> > with a 3 row and seems to be working fine. It's only after I was
> > checking the coolant level after installing it that I noticed the
> > crack.
> > Thanks.
> > '67 1600
> > --
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> >                       Hoon Kim
> >     ______\____       hoon@pixar.com
> >   :/_()_____()_;      x6184
> > ----------------------------------------------------------


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