Alan,
Try cap screws in place of the studs and nuts.
Peter
'68 TR250
on 10/19/02 10:39 PM, Alan at asalvato@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> I picked up a used two piece header that so far has proved to be a nitemare.
> I was wondering if anyone was familar with it.
> It was part of a stainless sport exhaust system. that was parted out and I
> picked it up the header since i had already had the sports exhaust, but with
> regular manifold.
> the weird thing about this header is that the 1st and 3rd tube don"t come out
> far enough and block putting the banana clamp and nut on.
> Since my intermediate pipe was different than what came with the header i had
> the pipe cut & welded to the header.
> The nut needs to be put on just as you put the header on; other wise with the
> header fully on, it blocks putting the nut on. A very screwed up design. At
> the tampa show today I saw a couple of cars with the header from TRF. That
> design doesn't block putting the fastners on.
> After messing with it till 3:00 this morning , I called it quits; got up this
> morning and went ot the tampa show; Without those two nuts securing the header
> and intake manifold the car sounded like it didn't have any exhaust system.
> I have got to fix this before SE VTR
> Al Salvatore
> 76tr6
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