So, I'm installing a stock exhaust manifold on the drivers side of my class A motorhome. (I know, headers as soon as I have the cash.) All scrunched up in the wheel well with a ratchet, a long extension, a shorter extension and a 9/16 socket.
Doing OK. Then, I moved, the shorter extension and the socket fall off.....right down into the exhaust pipe. Clunk, rattle, roll. (It does help to be a contortionist to work on engines in the vehicle - I am not,)
At first I wasn't sure. I wiggled the pipe - nothing. So I searched everywhere else for a half hour. I figure, if it's in there, and I bounce this pipe up and down real good, I'll hear it. So I did...and I heard it all right -roll way down the pipe.
Mind you, this is twelve feet of pipe with 2 rusty hangers between the manifold and the muffler.
I laughed. It was just such bad luck I could hardly believe it. So now I get the fine job of dis-assembling this monster of a pipe, just to dump out my socket and extension.
The good news is that the manifold is secured on now. A cross thread forced me to make one of the holes in the head a 7/16 stud. I actually drilled, by hand, with a drill bit and a pair of vise grips, with the head on the engine - there was NO WAY I was tearing it all up again. A 7/16 tap and stud later and I was on my way again, but already frustrated. Then on the last bolt, the socket thing....
Chris
Doing OK. Then, I moved, the shorter extension and the socket fall off.....right down into the exhaust pipe. Clunk, rattle, roll. (It does help to be a contortionist to work on engines in the vehicle - I am not,)
At first I wasn't sure. I wiggled the pipe - nothing. So I searched everywhere else for a half hour. I figure, if it's in there, and I bounce this pipe up and down real good, I'll hear it. So I did...and I heard it all right -roll way down the pipe.
Mind you, this is twelve feet of pipe with 2 rusty hangers between the manifold and the muffler.
I laughed. It was just such bad luck I could hardly believe it. So now I get the fine job of dis-assembling this monster of a pipe, just to dump out my socket and extension.
The good news is that the manifold is secured on now. A cross thread forced me to make one of the holes in the head a 7/16 stud. I actually drilled, by hand, with a drill bit and a pair of vise grips, with the head on the engine - there was NO WAY I was tearing it all up again. A 7/16 tap and stud later and I was on my way again, but already frustrated. Then on the last bolt, the socket thing....
Chris