Re: [AMC-list] Exhaust pipe gasket help needed

[Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thinking.
Donut gaskets times two...
Find one that fits up into the exhaust, face into manifold, then find one that has a sleeve inside it that sticks out and place them back to back.    

Man //Dnuts\\pipe
    \\  |  //flared 

a search through the exhaust section of a parts store should score a means to make 
a gasket ball!
  If you can't find the correct ones get two that fit up into the manifold that have no sleeve inside.
Then simply cut a 3/4" long piece of exh tube that fits snugly into the donuts. Plave a few weld blobs around tat piece about halfway so it won't slide out of the paired donuts.



Mark Price
Morgantown, WV 26508
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
"I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens!"

----- Original Message -----
From: "tom jennings" <tomj@xxxxxxx>
To: "Rambler AMC, Nash, Jeep and family" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 12:49:21 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [AMC-list] Exhaust pipe gasket help needed

Unfortunately, that ball end is unique, and I don't think an ordinary
muffler shop today can make one. When I had an exhaust put on my 63
american, the shop welded pipe directly to the bolt on flange! I didn't
think to say anything beforehand and I didn't notice for a couple of months
afterwards. (I'll never use that shop again.)

The hole in the cast manifold has a deep bevel that the ball end sits in.
Some later AMC sixes have the opposite, a cone at the end, so that the
muffler shop just flares a pipe end, and the flange holds it on. A much
better system.

Not sure what a solution for the 195.6 is, but it will be custom made.

Possibly, NAPA sells ball end exhaust stubs. They sell flared stubs. Then
the shop could weld one on.


On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 08:48, Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> There is no gasket. The "ball" end of the head pipe just tightens up into
> the tapered "socket" on the end of the manifold.



>
> From: mask1966@xxxxxxx
>
> I know many of you with early 60's Ramblers with the 196 OHV engine have
> experience removing/installing the exhaust system.?
>

-- 
All of your arguments are invalid.
Enjoy your unstable system.
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