04/06/2026
What a horrible job!
This vehicle came in with what looked like a blowing exhaust manifold gasket, but after the exhaust manifold had been removed we could see that the cause of the blow was a warped and corroded manifold, along with some broken exhaust studs.
Typically the studs had broken off flush to the head face, so out came our drill jig (made in house) - with a slight modification to the jig we were able to drill out the offending items with the engine still in place, then retap to a lager size which allowed us to fit helicoil inserts. While we were there we replaced all of the other exhaust manifold studs to prevent further failures.
The manifold was whisked off to our local engineering shop for a skim before being refitted with hardware and gaskets 🔧
