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mightyart
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 Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:53 pm Post subject: Air cooled Heater Exhaust Odor Fixed |
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A couple of weeks ago I changed a head on my van along with some other things.
The exhaust had to come off, along with a heat exchanger, since I had to take one off I took the other one off to.
I cleaned and put new gaskets on both of them.
I had when through my heater system two or so years ago and pretty much rebuilt it.
I have a cheap EMPI header an muffler on and it has always been a pain getting it to seal at the exchangers.
The gaskets that came with the exhaust just plain sucked, lasted about a week.
So after a good fight with OEM gaskets I got it to seal and work like it was supposed to.
Well I was worried about getting it sealed again this time.
I took my time got all new parts, put it all together, and it was running great!
Took it for a test run, and the heat was kicking and smell free!
Then I decided a treat was in order, because my other test pilot was hungry (young son).
While idling in the drive thru, all of a sudden it started to stink and I started to fume.
Well I knew I had to find a better gasket, and here’s what I came up with:
Mr. Gasket 5960 Ultra Seal Exhaust Gasket Material
http://www.jegs.com/i/Mr.+Gasket/720/5960/10002/-1
It’s not cheap, and you get enough for about 6 or 8 gaskets, but it works.
I cut my gaskets out this morning and have been driving around all day and the heat is working like it should now.
Here’s: the new gaskets I cut, and the ones I took off.
The top one sealed good, looks the same on the other side, but you can see the blow-by in the bottom one, it’s only on one side to.
Just enough of a leak to make your eyes water and your wife hate the heater.
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presslab
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That gasket stuff looks great, thanks for the pics.
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RCB
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Good job, thankx for the posting. Do you recall what brand of muffler you have and appx how old it is ? It looks pretty rust free, did you do any kind of treatment to it ?
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mightyart
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Good job, thankx for the posting. Do you recall what brand of muffler you have and appx how old it is ? It looks pretty rust free, did you do any kind of treatment to it ?
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It's a cheap Empi extractor, it's only about two months old, and I just took it out of the box and bolted it on, they are kind of disposible.
http://www2.cip1.com/PhotoGallery.asp?ProductCode=C13%2D3439 |
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paddyh
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| Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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| mightyart wrote: |
| RCB wrote: |
Good job, thankx for the posting. Do you recall what brand of muffler you have and appx how old it is ? It looks pretty rust free, did you do any kind of treatment to it ?
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It's a cheap Empi extractor, it's only about two months old, and I just took it out of the box and bolted it on, they are kind of disposible.
http://www2.cip1.com/PhotoGallery.asp?ProductCode=C13%2D3439 |
the gasket kit seems pretty rad, thanks for the tip.
as far as disposable for the muffler goes, do you mean "crap" or "economical"?
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mightyart
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| as far as disposable for the muffler goes, do you mean "crap" or "economical"? |
It's crap, but if you can fix the shortcomings like the gaskets, It will last a few years before it rusts out.
It is more freeflow then stock. |
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paddyh
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| mightyart wrote: |
| paddyh wrote: |
| as far as disposable for the muffler goes, do you mean "crap" or "economical"? |
It's crap, but if you can fix the shortcomings like the gaskets, It will last a few years before it rusts out.
It is more freeflow then stock. |
good to know, thanks fella!
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