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Over the years I have up brazed up quite a few exhaust manifolds. Some were broken in several pieces, some had pieces missing, but I always got back together. So it should be repairable. I like brazing over welding for this. You heat the whole part up and there is no warping. The strength of bronze is so close to cast iron that the repair will take high loads. Even brazed broken fork truck wheels!
I have news, I am having a local metal worker custom make the part out of aluminum (because it costs 50% of what steel costs...)
I know that mating steel and aluminum can be problematic.
I am kind of expecting this fix not to last very long but hopefully util the end of the season.
So what advice do you have on
1) Installation and tightening procedure
2) Should I use some sort of super powerful Locktite so the thing never comes undone again?
thats the broken manifold i don't have the replacement part yet.
hope that helps
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