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budget beater - . . . HOLMES 220 single line boom wrecker install starting ..

Outer ears bend in to center over years of heat cycles and bolt holes wont line up .

Spreader pushes them back out . . But dont get gready or SNAP . @mrk5
 
Outer ears bend in to center over years of heat cycles and bolt holes wont line up .

Spreader pushes them back out . . But dont get gready or SNAP . @mrk5
Interesting, I've never had trouble with that but I've only messed with a handful of manifolds. I always wondered how the exhaust manifold on the C10 was broken like it was when I bought the truck, it would make a lot of sense if it was from someone getting carried away with a spreader. :thinking:
 
or to hot to long .

and bbc just break . that why lots of guys go headers over trying to find good clean ones .
 
Never would have imagined there's a tool for that.
I have used one a couple of times. Sure beats fighting a manifold the holes won’t line up on.

I think the later ones were more prone to needing them. I don’t know if there was a change in the metal or just the design allowed it to happen. I’ve had early manifolds that actually had a chunk connecting the ends to the middle ports that never moved.
 
Well got lucky today . Just 2 new down pipe gasket rings . And 6 new nuts . . Less than 20k miles and shot on them old ones . Parts left over bonus .

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@mrk5 to many winches in the shop . . Your dads old one just had a kid :p and new truck has a newer version in the bumper of your dads old 8k .

Hello my name is sweetk30 i have a new addiction problem. . . Is there a support program for me ?

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You're going to become known as the "old Ramsey winch" guy.
 
with a side of warn and a touch of holmes :rotfl:

everyone is going cheepy china planetary winches these days and overlooking the quality of these units and dependability . so when they started popping up cheep i grabbed a few . . extra :haha:
 

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