January 31, 201016 yr comment_409811 picked up a ke70 for a daily that needed the gaskets done and find it was the hot box gasket, now all the bolts are broken that bolt the two manifolds to each other and i just need it going for now , got the gasket but no good with bolts broken. any quick fix i can do for now? Report
January 31, 201016 yr Author comment_409821 thats alright planing a bit of a build later on this year just need to get it going as I'm giving the miss the sp20 for her to get to work Report
January 31, 201016 yr comment_409877 Because the manifold has got hot then cold so many times all of the bolts a brittle and always snap. When building my turbo setup using a KE70 manifold I bought two KE70 mani's and snapped bolt in both of them which couldn't be removed. Went to another wrecking yard and told them I wanted the ex mani only and the issues with snapping bolts. Took the guy nearly an hour with an oxy torch to get them all out in one piece and charged me heaps. I then ran a blind tap through the holes and got myself some high tensile bolts. I would recommend you do the same thing if you want to keep the stock mani, otherwise just bight the bullet now and get some extractors - Then you'll never have a hot box gasket issue ever again! :) Report
February 4, 201016 yr Author comment_411167 cool well i guess i should get the extractors. you no where to get any. and do i need to cover the hole on bottom of the intake? Report
February 4, 201016 yr comment_411215 Nope intake has the heat sink ribs under it. There's only a hole in the ex mani. Report
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