I've never used it - should work though, 'specially if there's not
alot of flexing where it's applied. Bunch of years ago an old (er)
mechanic told me to alwys use furnace cement at exhaust pipe joints to
seal against leaks (PA inspection) and to prevent pipe joints from
rusting together. Supposedly heating the joint with a torch loosened
things up for easy disassembly.
Ed A
-----Original Message-----
From DLancer7676 at cs.com <DLancer7676@cs.com>
To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, October 23, 2000 5:13 PM
Subject: Patchin' the Manifold
>Well hell! The exhaust manifold, which had an elusive leak
somewhere and I
>could never find it, finally gave up the ghost, so to speak. I was
driving
>home (Taz, my '79 Midget) weekend before last and suddenly the roar
from the
>front got louder and I noted serious backfiring when I lifted my foot
from
>the 'celerator. So I spent the weekend welding that sucker back
together.
>The 4 pipes that descend into one were each cracked around their
perimeters
>and the one they descend into was broken completely off. Sooooo I
MIG welded
>it all back together.
>
>BUT I must have missed a crack in my welding because now that it is
remounted
>and running, I can hear that little "pfft pfft pfft" coming from the
welded
>area. Here is what I am gonna try, being a Valentine ordained,
Clarici
>authorized "We Cheap" club member. Remember (if you'uns is old
enough--ED is
>for sure!) going in those old country stores with the pot bellied
stoves?
>The hot pipes above them were smeared with this cement stuff, as well
as any
>cracks in the pot belly, and it churned along merrily and hotly?
Well I
>stopped by my local old time hardware store today and procured a
small
>($2.29) plastic jar of FURNACE CEMENT, good to 3000 degrees F. I am
gonna
>smear and force that stuff into and onto the manifold and see if'n it
works.
>I will post to the list the results in a couple of weeks.
>
>Anybody ever tried this????
>
>--David C.
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