My Pete rebuild

[Nostalgic]

(05-27-2023 )Rawze Wrote:  ALSO, and just as important is to ensure the manifold holes are reemed properly. This is one of the biggest reason (besides someone improperly torquing the bolts) that they break bolts to begin with. Here is a reference to this: http://rawze.com/forums/showthread.php?t...2#pid66592
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http://rawze.com/forums/showthread.php?t...9#pid39699

Always a good idea to double check the holes - which I'll do, but no broken bolts. From a visual, it looks like the rear of the manifold on mine "moves" more than the front, but it could also be because the rear part is the part that warped outwards. I noticed you mention on one of the linked threads that you put a little anti-seize on the gaskets. I thought I did as well on my first engine, but when I put this engine together I read in quickserve that Cummins specifically states not to, so I installed them clean and dry. Not sure what their logic is there - isn't the coating on new gaskets more or less a graphite base type of anti-seize? I know I've reused the manifold to turbo gasket in the past and just coated with graphite based anti-seize with no issue.

I'm hoping to leave the sections together when I do this since my slip joints aren't leaking, but have new slip gaskets on hand just in case things don't go as planned and I have to fully disassemble.