Jim,
What did you do so that you didn't need to weld?
Graeme Weston-Lewis
1997 SLT CC v8 4x4
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jim miller [mailto:jmiller@texnet.net]
> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 1999 12:21 AM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: DML: Mike Leach/Mopar header install welding
>
>
> I put the same headers on my 98 and I did not have to weld
> anything. I wouldn't
> reccommend welding if you don't have to because it promotes
> earlier rusting of
> the pipe, and may prevent later removal if you want to. If
> you must weld, don't
> do to until everything including collectors and the reducer
> adaptor is mounted
> or the bolt holes in the flanges may not line up.
>
> John Neff wrote:
>
> > Everything went together as planned except one little item. The
> > reducer for the cat converter inlet is the exact same size
> as the pipe that
> > is supposed to slip into it, so I was unable to join the
> Y-pipe to the rest
> > of the exhaust. I will take it to a muffler shop tomorrow
> and have themcut
> > it to the correct length, then weld it to the pipe, and
> bolt it to the Y-pipe.
> > There is plenty of room on the Y-pipe to use a clamp
> instead of welding, but
> > since I have to have the reducer welded to the cat inlet,
> I'm going to have it
> > welded up as well.
>
> > John
> > 98 Dakota
> > Headers are installed...............almost
>
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