Huh? Never tried to pull an engine with the manifolds still bolted to the
head, I always wondered what that would be like. Always just seemed to be
easier to undo them first.
Larry
Sorry don't really mean to be sarcastic.1
On 4/11/01 6:41 PM, "Jon Lind" <JonL@avanade.com> wrote:
> Yep--I've been there. I bought a motor and a car seperately, got the
> engine into the bay, got the exhaust bolted up, then drove to a nearby
> Midas where I paid like $300 (way too much, IMO) to have a custom
> exhaust built from the header back. It wasn't until I was having the
> main seal replaced that I discovered that the turkey had just welded the
> exhaust to the header's flange. Makes it almost impossible to pull the
> engine, of course. Stuff like that makes me furious.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: S & M Barnes [mailto:barnesms@swbell.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 3:00 PM
> To: MG List
> Subject: Can I Vent?
>
>
> About DPOs!
>
SNIP
>
> Then I found it, went to separate the exhaust from the manifold, we have
> a
> Monza exhaust on the car which is OK, the problem is that it has been
> welded
> directly onto a four into one manifold of some kind - the first clamped
> joint
> is somewhere under the drivers seat, there ain't no way that is coming
> out of
> there easily!
SNIP
>
Larry Macy
78 Midget
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