At 02:59 PM 6/9/2011, Rocket J Squirrel wrote: >How many nuts are there? I had to remove one to pull the left lower tin. >The rear end was held by a bolt. I did not see what the other two on the >left side were -- nuts or bolts. Similar arrangement on the R side? Each exhaust port has one stud/nut and one bolt. Everything else is bolts with nuts except...hmmm, isn't there a bracket with a stud that's part of one of the pipes? Up here in the land of chlorides I used to build that bracket up with weld metal so there would be something to rust. I also used to fill in the vee where the collector brings two pipes into one. That and the multitude of struts (7?) and muffler support bracket were better handled in the 2.1l. Yrs, d |
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