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Old 05-31-2004, 08:07 PM
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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....
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Old 05-31-2004, 11:32 PM
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no, the boltd fit fine, the head flange is warped
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Old 06-01-2004, 04:43 AM
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I'd take a hammer to that bitch.
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Old 06-01-2004, 11:40 AM
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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.
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Old 06-02-2004, 09:45 AM
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I picked up my manifold today, he did it for FREE he also drilled my oil pan for free, lucky me!
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Old 06-02-2004, 11:39 AM
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What kind of hook up do you have?
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Old 06-02-2004, 06:18 PM
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you could also just lay the whole thing flat on a belt sander not the wood/flooring kind though a stationary oen
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Old 06-02-2004, 07:15 PM
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haha belt sander Do you know how hard it would be to get that thing to be perfectly smooth and flat?
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Old 06-03-2004, 11:58 AM
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my dad knows the owener of the machine shop, so he gives me hook ups
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Old 06-03-2004, 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by superpilun
haha belt sander Do you know how hard it would be to get that thing to be perfectly smooth and flat?
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.

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