Intake/exhaust gasket time (1 Viewer)

[JLH911]

Update: I might have jumped the gun on suggesting on not using the Remflex...for now.

I was having trouble getting the bolts for the manifold to grab onto the head so I walked away yesterday to let the situation simmer.

I realized I had tightened down the manifold to the exhaust pipe taking away any free movement for the manifold holes to line up to the head.

Also, I cleaned up all the bolt threads from gunk that was on them.

Anyway, got them on without trouble and I'm going to torque them down tomorrow.

I hope to never do this again on my 60.

rant over

 

[Spike Strip]

Yes, it is not fun... Even with beer.

btw, leave it all loose until you put the "J" pipe and egr cooler back on, if you removed them either separately, or as a unit.

 

[JLH911]

believe it or not, I had the egr cooler and j-pipe all tightened up and set it in place before torquing the I/E manifold down. This way I wouldn't have trouble tightening that one big nut from the pipe to the cooler

 

[Spike Strip]

Yeah, I made a stubby wrench for that big nut...