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From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> About 400
> miles into the trip, I blew the gasket between the exhaust manifold and
> the down-pipe, and subsequently had this replaced by a back-street
> garage in Somerset. 100 miles later, I blew the same damn gasket.
We often sell these gakets in pairs - one for the manifold, one to go in the glovebox
for next time.....
> Is this gasket the one that various people recommend omitting
> altogether? If so, I'll just take it out, and screw everything back up
> as tight as I can...
Many people leave out the gasket but I've never been convinced. The same manifold
arrangement is used on the Dolomite 1500 and I used to change ours every 3 months/1500
miles at best. After being obsessed with making the exhaust mountings as rigid as
possible to avoid flex, I read an article in an old copy of The Courier from the mid
1980s. It was suggested to mount the exhaust fairly loosely, omitting any brackets
from the gearbox forward altogether. This prevents the downpipe joint from becoming a
fulcrum point as the whole system moves together. I tried it, and the same gasket was
on the car when we sold it after about 3000 miles. I don't know how much longer it
would have lasted, but it was a very drastic improvement,
Cheers,
Bill.
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