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removing 1500 manifolds

To: cglied@whro.net, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: removing 1500 manifolds
From: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 14:48:21 +0100


Gary,

If all else fails, remove the head, then you can get to the bolts a lot easier.
That's a last resort, though - I have seen the manifolds removed with
thin-walled sockets and several "wiggly things" connected together.

Dean
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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 08:02:24 -0400
From: Claudia Lied <cglied@whro.net>
Subject: removing 1500 manifolds

Advice needed!  I am in the process of replacing my 80 Spit's manifolds
after the exhaust split returning from a show the first day of BCW.  I have
all the upper nuts off, but cannot access the lower nuts with the tools I
have.  A DPO replaced these nuts with long, about 1 inch, nuts like those
used to connect threaded rod.  Does anyone know of a specific type of
wrench that will get over the exhaust and under the intake manifold to
reach these nuts?
TIA  Gary Lied



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