What are you suing to seal the collector to the exhaust pipe. Have you found any tricks to get to the bolt on top its a major PITA to get all the bolts nice and tight. I just want to make sure Im not missing something easy since I pulling the headers back off for the third time.

 

buy you a set of copper ones at a local speed shop. they cost around $15 a pair. that's what i'm running now and have no leaks...

 

FelPro p/n 2001, use 2 of them, coat all 3 mating surfaces with RTV copper.

 

Use about 2-3 feet of extensions to get to the back side of the top bolt with a deep socket. An open end wrench on the front of the bolt wedged between the frame rail and heat shield will hold it in place.

 

Yeah unfortunately I have a t-case and driveshaft in the way on the driveside and a t-case in teh way on the pass side Having a 4wd can be a PITA but it sure is fun on the street

 

V-band clamps. Or are you talking about the 3-bolt flanges?




Company called Percys makes a pretty nice set of 3 bolt gaskets. I sell alot of them and guys say they work great versus their coppers that blow out.

 

3-bolt They are 3" collectors could you possibly get me a PN for a set of em. I only want to do this once as they are a pain in the ***.

 

Damn guess I should have thought about that top bolt before I welded the flanges on the collectors the other night.

 

Use m,ore extension. If you gotta, use 6' of extensions, that should get you out of the way of the t-case!

 

I have ball/socket flanges for my headers. They have never leaked in the last 3 years. You would have to cut your existing 3 bolt flange off the header though.