Tate,
Gotta love long tube headers. They are also a lot harder to accurately jig
at the manufacturer as you have found out. Does mopar perf guarrantee the fit??
Bruce (short tube) Bridges
At 09:59 AM 7/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
>No clamp supplied and I looked at Mike Clarks pictures and he sent -
>no clamp used. DOESN'T MATTER SINCE I'M SENDING THE SOB'S BACK
>ANYWAY!
>
>Before we get started - hell yes, I've installed headers before. I
>know all about grinding bolts and pushing and pulling until you think
>you're gonna snap the damned bolts that you already have started in
>order to get that/those last "problem bolts" in. I know about trying
>numerous different orders of bolt installation - I know about "wiggle,
>wiggle, wiggle" like I said - I've put headers on a few cars before.
>
>I'm here to tell you that the passenger rear port's holes were not
>drilled in the proper location. I finally got the front four in, and
>had to get under the truck and push the living sh!t out of the header
>up to get the last bolt in. The next to the last bolt was a "no
>f*#king" way situation. The flange hole was about 3/32 too far
>forward. I had just finished filing the crap out of two of the bolt
>flanges (had 4 in on the driver's side) and NO, I wasn't going to
>drill bigger holes in my new $500 Chrysler header flanges to get them
>to fit. Back on went the manifolds (btw, these manifolds looked very
>nice on the inside as far as manifolds are concerned) and off we went
>to the muffler shop to get the y rewelded to the cat inlet. I will
>keep the group updated. I'm telling you that Lee Iacoca couldn't have
>installed these bastards without drilling and grinding if he had the
>thing on an engine stand in the Wayne County Team Shop!!!!!
>
>Frustrated, but it's really no big deal - I have lots to be thankful
>for. Thanks for letting me vent.
>
>Tate
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: DodgeBoyz3@aol.com [SMTP:DodgeBoyz3@aol.com]
>Sent: Sunday, July 19, 1998 2:15 AM
>To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>Subject: Re: DML: MP y-pipe install question
>
>just put supplied clamp and tighten it....alot
>most of your problems will not come from this area, be more worried
>about the
>collector gaskets. from experience i can tell you to go ahead and get
>copper
>or solid aluminum collector gaskets, as you will be replacing fiber or
>paper
>ones all the time if you like to
>stomp the pedal at all
>
>
>
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