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240 exhaust manifold leak 200

posted by  chessy creek on  Thu May 31 04:01 CST 2007
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My wife returned from a 120 mile round trip in her 1990 wagon (155,000 miles) and noticed a new noise yesterday. Last night we found that the gasket between the head and the exhaust manifold at #2 cylinder had failed. There is a very noticeable exhaust leak. I have ready as may posts as I could last night on exhaust gaskets and PB Blaster for the nuts. I plan to replace the gaskets at each cylinder, but still have a few questions:

Can the manifold be left connected to the exhaust system, unbolted and pulled away from the head far enough to effect the repair, or should I plan to remove the manifold entirely?

How hard is it to remove the old gasket material from the head/manifold?

Is this a failure which I should forsee for my other 240 which has 166,000 miles?

Thanks.





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