Re:homemade manifold might be warped, what should I do??
 

let me get this straight..???? you made your manifold and one of the bolts wont go in all the way???? if this is the case... just grind some of the weld enough to get the bolt to fit flush on the flange...


that happend to me... and it was leaking bad till i grinded that ---- off... then i torqued it down and it never leaked again....

Re:homemade manifold might be warped, what should I do??
 

no, the boltd fit fine, the head flange is warped

Re:homemade manifold might be warped, what should I do??
 

I'd take a hammer to that bitch.

Re:homemade manifold might be warped, what should I do??
 

same ---- happened to my dads truck header. took that sucker to the machine shop. they surfaced till it was flat. works perfectly it was only 20 bucks.

Re:homemade manifold might be warped, what should I do??
 

I picked up my manifold today, he did it for FREE ;D he also drilled my oil pan for free, lucky me!

Re:homemade manifold might be warped, what should I do??
 

What kind of hook up do you have?

Re:homemade manifold might be warped, what should I do??
 

you could also just lay the whole thing flat on a belt sander not the wood/flooring kind though a stationary oen

Re:homemade manifold might be warped, what should I do??
 

haha belt sander??? Do you know how hard it would be to get that thing to be perfectly smooth and flat?

Re:homemade manifold might be warped, what should I do??
 

my dad knows the owener of the machine shop, so he gives me hook ups :)

Re:homemade manifold might be warped, what should I do??
 

most machine shops actually use a belt sander for flange surfaces. The belt just rides across a perfectly flat surface. I'm sure they don't refer to it as a belt sander... but it uses a sanding belt and looks kind of like one.

Neil