VAC Project: Where it's at.....

On the leaky exhaust elbow, I went to NAPA, and they had a box of assorted gaskets for exhaust joints. These had a metal inner ring and look pretty substantial, and at $2.50, I bought to try. It seems to be holding up well, and it doesn't leak. I also installed two studs in the manifold instead of bolts, and they have fine threads on the end pointing out, so they are really easy to tighten and hopefully loosen in the future.

On the Aircleaner pipe bracket. I can't figure out why it doesn't ;ine up. If I position it straight out from the tractor and stnading stright up, the bracket, when installed straddling the manifold bosses, would miss the pipe by right at 2 inches. That's why I get tilt.

So, I am fabricating a plate using 1/8" steel, 3" wide and some of the muffler pipe I used to weld on the extension on the A/C pipe. I think I might just out two spot welds on the back side of the bracket to fix it to the pipe, and that should be all the steadying up she'll need. I can ever figure out the correct plate arrangement, I'll try again.

Thought you all might like to know.

Frank

Joe:

Here is picture that while it is not the best quality, it shows the amount that the pipe has to sit to the outside of the elbow boss to be upright.

If you sit on the seat, and look down and across the pipe, you will see the inner surface of the pipe is touching the plane from the outside boss. I'm wondering if I have a pipe that has too much "ess" in it, but I"m reluctant to cut it and remove the 1 3/4" or so it will take to move the pipe toward the engine centerline.

I have more pictures if you need to see them.

Frank

Yessir! That's what I should do! I see they used brass on the manifold studs, but you probably can't draw on those like you need to to steady up that big muffler mass.

Frank