Hey guy's, been awhile... and been busy.
Along with all the normal spring preparation stuff, I've been cleaning up /out my (out of town) garage and all my grounds-keeping equipment. The building was flooded. Had 13" of water in it. All my small engine equipment was under water and just coated with mud/muck/oil and what ever else that was in the water. Not too happy as I've been cleaning/working constantly with it for the last 2 weeks. Cleaning the building and restoring my junk back to running, useable shape.
Well, on to the topic of this thread:
I've apparently always had a SMALL exhaust leak under the hood that I've never really bothered all that much with. It's not really noticeable (while driving) unless the wing-window is open. If that's open, and everything else is shut, it comes in and is easily noticed. Originally, I thought it was mostly from under the vehicle. The Y pipe to exhaust pipe has always been just, sort of a loose connection. It was tight together (held with a traditional exhaust clamp) but when under the vehicle I could see the tell tale soot marks you get with leaks.
That recently came apart again (slipped out) and since I have a welder now, I decided to just weld it. Got it all welded, sealed up (can't feel a leak with it running and my hands on the pipe), but-hmm still have that smell.
Looking more at my air injection tube set up(which is completely useless for me) I found a hole under the valve on the driver side that the old air tube would connect to. This morning while cold I put my hand over it with the engine idling and sure enough, pretty strong little breeze coming out of it. I can only imagine how much comes out during normal driving or even, full throttle shots.
Most of you that know me here, know that I have (well, started with) a total rusty POS. I'm sure the injection bolts WONT come out. So don't even tell me-"just unbolt it and put regular bolts in". That's not happening with this Jeep. and no, I don't want, or plan to pull the manifolds.
So, Can I just cut the tubes flush where they come out of the exhaust manifolds, and just fill that open space with a bb's sized blob of weld?
If that would work, then I don't need to worry about breaking bolts and I can get those damn lines out of my way. Make the engine bay look a little cleaner too!
The air injection is totally in-operable as the pump seized up back when the previous owner had the jeep. I'm not ever going to need it. I just want to seal this leak and get rid of those little lines.
Along with all the normal spring preparation stuff, I've been cleaning up /out my (out of town) garage and all my grounds-keeping equipment. The building was flooded. Had 13" of water in it. All my small engine equipment was under water and just coated with mud/muck/oil and what ever else that was in the water. Not too happy as I've been cleaning/working constantly with it for the last 2 weeks. Cleaning the building and restoring my junk back to running, useable shape.
Well, on to the topic of this thread:
I've apparently always had a SMALL exhaust leak under the hood that I've never really bothered all that much with. It's not really noticeable (while driving) unless the wing-window is open. If that's open, and everything else is shut, it comes in and is easily noticed. Originally, I thought it was mostly from under the vehicle. The Y pipe to exhaust pipe has always been just, sort of a loose connection. It was tight together (held with a traditional exhaust clamp) but when under the vehicle I could see the tell tale soot marks you get with leaks.
That recently came apart again (slipped out) and since I have a welder now, I decided to just weld it. Got it all welded, sealed up (can't feel a leak with it running and my hands on the pipe), but-hmm still have that smell.
Looking more at my air injection tube set up(which is completely useless for me) I found a hole under the valve on the driver side that the old air tube would connect to. This morning while cold I put my hand over it with the engine idling and sure enough, pretty strong little breeze coming out of it. I can only imagine how much comes out during normal driving or even, full throttle shots.
Most of you that know me here, know that I have (well, started with) a total rusty POS. I'm sure the injection bolts WONT come out. So don't even tell me-"just unbolt it and put regular bolts in". That's not happening with this Jeep. and no, I don't want, or plan to pull the manifolds.
So, Can I just cut the tubes flush where they come out of the exhaust manifolds, and just fill that open space with a bb's sized blob of weld?
If that would work, then I don't need to worry about breaking bolts and I can get those damn lines out of my way. Make the engine bay look a little cleaner too!
The air injection is totally in-operable as the pump seized up back when the previous owner had the jeep. I'm not ever going to need it. I just want to seal this leak and get rid of those little lines.
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