Exhaust Manifold to Tailpipe gasket

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Originally Posted by ericr

do you think this fix emerged before we had repro mufflers with the correct flange on them? Also did the wireless plate emerge before we had the knowledge or availability of the correct stranded wire?


I have been wondering what people think of the "improved" repro muffler clamp that is threaded on the engine side, obviating the need for nuts and supposedly making for an easier installation.

My guess is your right on the correct flange.

Wireless plate im sure is one of those gimmick fixes. After someone gets stumped as to random misfires or no starts then discovers its a simple wire they probably thought "well i dont want that to happen again" thus eliminating the wire. That wire has been around for a very long time but like now its not something the average hardware store had - people probably tried the general hardware store wire to find it broke or too stiff in short time.

We had to use the same high flex bunch of multistrant wire for our voltage sense wire for our welding robots, if you used the normal THHN stuff it would last about a month or two then break. of course hardly ever broke fully so certian welds/angles it would spaz out and burn hot as hell as it thought the voltage on the weld wire was zero.

Im kind of indifferent on the muffler clamp - the origonal style has the merrits that you can get them back apart usually or at the least you can cut just the bolts off and reuse the clamp. now the new style would be much much easier to install im afraid it will be the wrath of modern manifold bolts that love to rust and snap off right at the manifold.