Exhaust Manifold Replacement

Posted by admin on Nov 26, 2006 in Mustang | 0 comments

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On 11/09/06  I posted in Vintage-Mustang.com forums inquiring about a price on a replacement stock manifold for a 1966  Mustang. I received a number of replys and some offering to give me the parts I needed for free. I took the offer of one guy in Alhambra and went to his house to pick up the parts. He gave me 2 semi rusted but in great shape left and right exhaust manifolds.  Mine have a number of cracks in them and need to be replaced quickly before things got even worse.

11/24/06 Brandon and I replaced both of the cracked exhaust manifolds on the mustang this four day weekend. I arrived at his house at 10am and we began at 10:30.am I went and bought a torque wrench and some silver paint at Kragen before we began working. We had a hard time starting since we didnt want to strip any of the bolts (or break them for that matter). I went and asked Will (mom’s neighbor) if he would come over and give us a hand. He had his own car project going on and said he’d help us get started. He brought over some larger wrenches and got all of the manifold bolts loosened up for us. He asked if I had the gasket kit for the car and told me I should go to Autozone to buy one. Brandon made the second of many trips to Autozone to pickup this part. On our way back we went by “computer bills” house to borrow some more tools and a car jack. We got back and got the car on jackstands and started on taking off the exhaust manifold. The drivers side one was in VERY bad shape. When Brandon took off port 5 and 6 bolts part of the manifold fell off. The drivers side had 2 major cracks in it. once he took off bolts 7 the middle part of the exhaust manifold fell off. The Passengers side was in better shape but had a hairline crack in it.

Brandon and I didnt finish until 10:00 midnight. We dropped the car back on the ground and started it up. We had some leaks so we called Computer Bill up and he said we should try driving it around then while it was stil warm we should try tightening the bolts a bit. We gave that a go the drove around a bit more and around 11:30 it stopped leaking. I headed home around midnight and didnt have any problems.

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Posted by admin on Feb 28, 2006 in Mustang | 1 comment

Last week on my way to work the mustang began overheating. From what we know the radiator is the original, and has never been worked on. I took the mustang down to my mechanic and had him look at it. He confirmed the radiator wasn’t doing its job and it was quite rusty, all of the hoses were old and worn and the water pump as well as the thermostat needed to be replaced. When i pulled over when it overheated LOTS of coolant and steam was coming from the thermostat and he said it busted the gasket on it. $1200 later and he removed the whole front of the engine, replaced the timing cover & gasket, water pump, main coolant hoses, thermostat and gasket. While he had it open he also replaced the timing set and gaskets, drive belts and flushed the whole thing to make sure all the rusty coolant was out of there. At this point the whole front end of the engine is new. I now have a 3 row radiator that will do wonders for the car this summer. Yay no more overheating!

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