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Re: [Healeys] Blown exhaust gaskets redux

To: Douglas Morris <dcmdcm@nc.rr.com>, 6pack <6pack@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Blown exhaust gaskets redux
From: "Eric (Rick) Wilkins" <e-wilkins@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:09:17 -0700
You stripped exhaust studs using brass nuts?!

On Apr 18, 2010, at 5:58 PM, Bob Spidell wrote:

> I think I've finally isolated the original cause of a series of  
> blown exhaust flange gaskets: two of the three studs on one manifold  
> were weak and would not hold tension.  I finally ended up stripping  
> them while trying to apply a reasonable torqe (20 ft-lbs).  Anyway,  
> I managed to extract the studs and tried installing 3 new ones I  
> happened to have and all of them stripped!
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