RE: [DML] Re: Rusty Exhaust Manifold Studs

["PJ Grady" <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,

A little bit of copper anti-seize compound should solve that issue. Now I'd
better get back to work before my customers think I've been swallowed by the
DML :). This can be addicting. See you guys later!

Robert Grady

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Levy [mailto:malevy_nj@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 9:31 AM
To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [DML] Re: Rusty Exhaust Manifold Studs

Putting a stainless stud in an aluminum head will
likley make it so you will never again remove the
stud.


--- content22207 <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stock exhaust manifold studs are M7x1 -- rather
> uncommon in carbon
> steel, impossible to find in stainless steel. Those
> same holes will
> tap extremely easily to 5/16x24 (24 TPI is almost
> identical to 1mm
> pitch) -- very common in stainless. Tap will thread
> in as easily as a
> bolt, which is useful for the studs on cylinders 1
> and 4 hidden behind
> the crossmember. Replacing carbon studs with
> stainless steel would
> make future removal problem free. Don't forget the
> studs that hold the
> manifolds to the crossover pipe (M10x1.5 -- also
> common in stainless).
> 
> Bill Robertson
> #5939


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