[Healeys] Blown exhaust gaskets redux

[Eric (Rick) Wilkins]

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!