Malleus
Far west of Siegen
The 80 series manifold nuts are locknuts. Are the 40's not?On my way back from Santa Rosa Beach, Sunday before last, with the window down I noticed that I might have developed an exhaust leak. It was not pronounced so much, but at higher revs I could hear exhaust notes from under the hood. I forgot about it, till yesterday. While messing around under the hood, I started checking the exhaust bolts. Well lo-and-behold, I was able to twist the lower rear bolt with just my fingers on the extension. I tightened it back up, and didn't hear the exhaust this morning.
Question, do you guys put any loctite on the manifold bolts?
Future project, will be to install headers with a new exhaust system. At that time, I'll switch out the bolts to studs, and loctite them into the block. But would you loctite the nuts onto the studs?