Journal: Bruno Devuono's Journal

I started repairing my manifold leak. Took off the carbs, heat shield, inlet manifold and exhaust manifold. Everything came off easy. removing the manifold from the lower exhaust pipes was a bit of a chore but it came off. I was missing one exhaust gasket and that was causing the leak along with a missing stud.
Trying to remove the old exhaust studs was a PITA (pain in the you-know-what). Some came out easily but two broke off and I had to drill them out. Re-tapped the holes and all is well.
The manifold, inlet manifold and heat shield are now ready for primer and paint. It's gonna be nice to have a not-so-noisy "B".

EDIT...10/11/05...Here's an update...
Last week I painted my exhaust manifold only to find out I used the wrong paint. I used 500 degree instead of 1200 degree. I had re-assembled everything...started it up and after 5 minutes the paint started to melt off. There was mucho smoke-o.
Ok...so I took everything apart and had a local guy sandblast the manifold and I re-painted it with the 1200 degree stuff. It's cureing in my BBQ grill as I am writing this.
On the up-side, the car sounded great when I had it running for those 5 minutes. No exhaust leak under the hood.
I should have it back together and running in a few days.

EDIT...10/16/05
I got everything back together on the 13th and the car is running fine. The engine sounds like it should and because I had to re-do everything, I had time to really clean the carbs.