hightime81
NAXJA Forum User
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- Holly Springs, NC
Good evening!
Spent ~6 hours changing out my exhaust manifold today, am sunburned all to shit for it too! . This is the first time i have done one, and it went relatively smoothly for what it's worth. seems a lot more complicated when i read it in the haynes manual.
at any rate, got the old one off, the intake was FULL of nasty grimy carbon, which i cleaned out as best i could. was careful to rtv and mount up the new gasket and intake and exhaust manifold.
got everything connected and back in place. started it up and got some smoke where the manifold meets the exhaust and now i hear bit of a whistle (like air sneaking in) around the top of the engine ( i think the fuel injectors).
i assume the orings at least need to be changed on the injectors, they were relatively gummed up, but the actual spraying part was clean (ran seafoam through the tank last fill up), but im leaning towards getting some ford injectors off of ebay since they are cheap and i have heard good things about them from you guys.
for the exhaust connection to the manifold, anyone else have exhaust escaping there when they do the swap? what did you do to fix it? i thought i had it in pretty tight. maybe pull it apart, use some RTV and then put back together as tight as possible?
thanks in advance
Spent ~6 hours changing out my exhaust manifold today, am sunburned all to shit for it too! . This is the first time i have done one, and it went relatively smoothly for what it's worth. seems a lot more complicated when i read it in the haynes manual.
at any rate, got the old one off, the intake was FULL of nasty grimy carbon, which i cleaned out as best i could. was careful to rtv and mount up the new gasket and intake and exhaust manifold.
got everything connected and back in place. started it up and got some smoke where the manifold meets the exhaust and now i hear bit of a whistle (like air sneaking in) around the top of the engine ( i think the fuel injectors).
i assume the orings at least need to be changed on the injectors, they were relatively gummed up, but the actual spraying part was clean (ran seafoam through the tank last fill up), but im leaning towards getting some ford injectors off of ebay since they are cheap and i have heard good things about them from you guys.
for the exhaust connection to the manifold, anyone else have exhaust escaping there when they do the swap? what did you do to fix it? i thought i had it in pretty tight. maybe pull it apart, use some RTV and then put back together as tight as possible?
thanks in advance
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