Woohoo!!!

I love it when it's me that gets to have comical-type cascading problems with my brick. Nothing too serious though.

So saturday I figured I would head over to the shop to get what seemed to be a leaky gasket at the cat/front pipe connection on my 245.

Figured I would be out after an hour so lots of time to drive down to Niagara Falls for the Volvo show. 2 hours and several attempts at different gaskets later we find that the flange on the front pipe is cracked, leaking and unweldable hence the source of the leak. An hour later the front pipe arrives much to the dismay of the mechanic trying to free the old one front it's 16 year old prison. The only solution was to remove the old nuts with lots of heat and torque which had detrimental effects on their threads.

5 blocks away from the shop after having resigned to the fact that the studs need removing and the car should come back monday, one of nthe studs snapped and I now have my very own race-type sounding brick. Being mid afternoon, I resgined to the fact that I wouldn't be going to Niagara Falls, so I head home.

Sunday morning I decide to go at it myself. First I drop my new front pipe, then I remove all (very easily mind you) of the exhaust manifold studs. Now with the manifold off, it's off at the machine shop to get the studs popped and new threads laid in. Well hopefully. The guy over there was pessimistic and told me he would give me a call tomorrow.

Now that I have all the junk out from the exhaust side of the block, any suggestions on what I should do besides a ritual cleaning/painting of everything in there??? Lord knows the manifold will get a nice fresh coat of high-heat paint to look pretty.

Cheers all and I hope the show was good...

Richard

87 245 DL 364,000 km
82 242 GLT 121,000 km