From: Stephen & Jeanne Keith (cckw@comcast.net)
Date: Sat Jan 17 2004 - 12:06:32 PST
Some of us suspect the gasoline nowadays.
I personally think it runs hotter and burns out the gaskets and
warps the manifolds. I bought some NOS (real asbestos) manifold
gaskets sets from Memphis Equipment. We shall see.....
Steve AKA Dr Deuce
----- Original Message -----
From: "chance wolf" <chance_wolf@shaw.ca>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Only tangentially MV related but interesting nonetheless
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen & Jeanne Keith" <cckw@comcast.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 11:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Only tangentially MV related but interesting nonetheless
>
>
> > I have one of the 3 piece ex manifolds. I thought they came from the
> > M59? APC
> >
> > I have never has a problem with a CCKW or M135 ex manifold. I use
> > them interchangeably. I have seen severe problems with the 4 bolt (carb)
> > intake manifolds. This is the same as the civy one. I have 5 of them and
> > 4 of them are either missing pieces of casting under the carb heat box
> > or are cracked.
>
> They could be for the M59 originally (same engine after all), but they
were
> used on the M135s as replacements as well. The original poster, myself,
and
> a few others went to the ranges at Cold Lake, Alberta to scavenge some
parts
> off of the trucks in the holding area, and one of the ones which was more
or
> less completely destroyed by shrapnel still had an intact 3-piece style
> manifold on its decrepit GM 302. Naturally it was liberated (or
> "transferred to a location more suitable for our purposes.") One of the
> other local MVPA members (Hi Dan!) also managed to get one from somewhere
> years ago, but to this date, those are the only two I've ever seen.
>
> We've tried everything on our own GMC manifolds including planing them
until
> the 'bow' was taken out, installing them with thicker or thinner gaskets,
> being mindful of the torque within a couple of pounds of the next stud -
the
> works - but they still bow, crack, and blow the gaskets out in short
order.
> GrRrrr. I can't recall whether our trucks utilize your 'four bolt'
manifold
> or not without looking, but the described damage certainly sounds about
> right. Sure would be nice to drive it more than 300 miles in any
direction
> without it suddenly sounding like a Tijuana Taxi.
>
>
>
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