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Manifold to exhaust connection x-avg-checked=avg-ok-19903EC6

To: "Ray Sides" <RSides@jyorkassoc.com>, spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Manifold to exhaust connection x-avg-checked=avg-ok-19903EC6
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 08:51:15 -0500
Ray, (can I call you Ray?)
        To get the best fit of pipe to manifold, you'll want to loosen the 
clamp 
that MUST be attaching the pipe to the transmission bell-housing. If that 
assembly is missing, or broken (often) or loose, attempts at maintaining 
the exhaust seal are futile. I've had success placing a jack under the pipe 
at the crook to push it tightly into place rather than relying on the clamp 
to bring the pipe up tight to the manifold. Once the split clamp is secure, 
align the support clamp at the bell-housing and tighten it, then release 
the jack. The support at the bell-housing keeps the pipe as one with the 
engine so that all of the system movement is buffered at the rubber mount 
at the axle hump and at the trunk mount.
        An alternative is to get thee a 1968 through 1974 manifold and pipe 
which 
uses a gasket and 3 bolt flange instead. These have a different set of 
issues, however.
        Good luck.
Peter C.





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