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
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Henard Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 12:30 PM To: [email protected] 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 __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 8247 (20130419) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html Suggested annual donation $11.47 Archive: http://www.team.net/archive Forums: http://www.team.net/forums Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/spitfires/[email protected]
