[Healeys] Fwd: Down pipes

[i erbs]

How are your rubber mounts? Is your exhaust rattling a lot?

Ira Erbs
Portland, OR
typos and artifacts are the fault of my phone

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 10:24 AM Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:

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> *From:* Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>
> *Date:* October 17, 2019 at 8:21:17 AM PDT
> *To:* Fred Wescoe <fredwescoe at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* *Re:  [Healeys] Down pipes*
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> I tried everything: new nuts, SS studs and torquing the snot out of the
> nuts (snapping a stud in the process) and still they would work loose.
> Finally gave up and double-nutted with mild steel nuts with high-temp
> anti-seize on the studs; they haven’t loosened since.
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> On Oct 16, 2019, at 6:19 PM, Fred Wescoe <fredwescoe at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Listers,
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> Today, I had to tighten the 6 nuts on my exhaust down pipes.  This is the
> second time in 2 years I have had to do this.  What is causing the nuts to
> work loose?  Each of the 6 studs from the exhaust manifolds has split lock
> washers and brass nuts on the down pipe flanges.  Each time time I have
> tightened the nuts, I tighten them until the nuts squeak.
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> What am I doing wrong and does anyone else have this issue?  What do I
> need to do to fix this?  The car is a 66 BJ8 with stock manifolds and down
> pipes.
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> Thanks for any advice, I'm stumped,
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> Fred
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> 66 BJ8
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