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Charles McNelly

01-20-2007 17:42:25

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Has anyone ever had to build a spacer plate for there manifold on there Farmall M or W-6? I had taken my manifold to a machine shop to have them true it and now it's to close to the head. The tube between the carburator a governor doesn't line up. I was thinking about taking some 1/8" plate and making a spacer out of it, then put a gasket on both sides. I don't think stacking 3 gaskets together would last very long on the exhaust side. What do ya'll think. Any ideas? Charles

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Charles McNelly III

01-21-2007 14:06:49

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Re: spacer for manifold in reply to Charles McNelly III, 01-20-2007 17:42:25

Thanks for the replys guys. The reason I didn"t replace it was that I didn"t know anybody who would sell me a LP manifold cheap. I figured the little bit of money I spend on this one would still come out cheaper then buying another one. I didn"t know anybody made an LP manifold new for the M anyway. I figure I can either weld the runners up and re cut them or make a spacer 1/16" thick and double gasket it together. I don"t like the idea of drilling all the mounting holes on the governor to make it work. Thanks again,
Charles

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Janicholson

01-21-2007 18:35:07

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Re: spacer for manifold in reply to Charles McNelly III, 01-21-2007 14:06:49

One item not mentioned yet is that a small bracket attached to the manifold where it meats the LP apparatus, and the other end attached to the block would keep viabration from affecting your gaskets. A stiff rubber square of about 1-1/2 inches square epoxied to the block (sanded to metal) with a 1/8" thick tab glued to it would be neat. JimN

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D Slater

01-21-2007 05:21:54

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Re: spacer for manifold in reply to Charles McNelly III, 01-20-2007 17:42:25

Suspect they cut manifold gasket surface out of level with original angle. Would'nt take much to shift carb. more distance than what was removed from manifold. One way I have used to line up mismatch, but don't know about 1/8 inch is to slot 2 bolt holes in housing on top of main governor housing. After make sure vertical throttle linkage rod does'nt rub. One other time for a LP manifold I used a god bit of time with a file, flat glass and sand paper to cut upper housing gasket surface at a angle so top would shift closer to engine to line up carb. throttle shaft.

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champspa

01-21-2007 04:34:53

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Re: spacer for manifold in reply to Charles McNelly III, 01-20-2007 17:42:25

for 150 bucks you can have one better than the original what are you doing paying all these machine shops ?

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PORKY B.

01-21-2007 04:31:46

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Re: spacer for manifold in reply to Charles McNelly III, 01-20-2007 17:42:25

Would it have been easier to replace the manifold? Sounds like your machine shop hogged a lot of material off that manifold. They should no that, after that things are not going to line up properly. Now you got to shim this animal up to make work. I hope your manifold is in good shape, not rotten and burnt out to go through all this shimming business.I"ve run into this bull $#&@ before with some machineshops.This senario reminds me of the recent post ,the fella with sleeve heights in block, mean while he explains the top deck of block was machined, put sleeves in, protrusion to high. Why didn"t these idiots cut the counterbores a couple of thousands .From what I understand the guy decided to file the tops of new sleeves to make work.Like I say: Do what you want you will anyway.

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Janicholson

01-20-2007 19:29:10

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Re: spacer for manifold in reply to Charles McNelly III, 01-20-2007 17:42:25

It will work, Glue the old gasket to the strip of metal and have a shop use a vertical mill to cut out the needed holes and drill the bolt holes. (a local technical school would be fine) JimN

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City-Boy McCoy

01-20-2007 17:56:47

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Re: spacer for manifold in reply to Charles McNelly III, 01-20-2007 17:42:25

Charles - I think making a 1/8" spacer would work and is a good idea - except for the cost, unless you can machine it all yourself, possibly using the gasket as a pattern. I think you will probably find that hiring it done will be cost prohibitive, and you will come out cheaper by just buying another manifold. mike

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all wet

01-21-2007 08:29:42

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Re: spacer for manifold in reply to City-Boy McCoy, 01-20-2007 17:56:47

I think making a spacer out off anything but cast Iron will expand more than the cast and always be a problem using 2 gaskets

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