John, I feel your pain, most especially my knuckles are tingling.
I have an open-end wrench of the correct size, where I ground down the other
end (the round end) enough that I was able to get the wrench behind the
metal coolant pipe to get at those nuts. One has to turn the wrench front to
back several times during the process as you may only be able to get an
eighth of a turn at a time. On some of my cars, those nuts were the longer
versions, which made them easier to remove.
In my experience at least, the dowels were a non-issue once all the nuts
were removed.
Application of a penetrating fluid like PB Blaster may help, and enable you
to turn them by hand once you've freed them off.
Hope that helps
Nick Moseley
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From: spitfires-bounces@autox.team.net
[mailto:spitfires-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of John Henard
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 12:30 PM
To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: [Spits] Spit manifolds removal
Wise (and less frustrated) ones,I am trying to remove the intake and exhaust
manifolds on a '71 and not having much luck. All the manuals/books I have
are vague. I have removed:main nuts along the top of the intake offend studs
at either end of the exhaust manifoldnut (but not stud) securing the intake
to the exhaust manifoldstuds have been snapped at the exhaust down flangeTwo
things that appear to be hanging on:dowels in the top of the intake flanges
- not sure how to removetwo more main nuts under the intake holding the
exhaust to the head (can't get to these yet)What am I missing or how do I
remove the two things above if that is all that is left? Suggestions?
Thanks,
--John Henard
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