Not overly clear, but the front manifold nut fixing is now a separate roughly triangular piece. A crack runs all way from top to bottom around where the pipes flare out. A kind of washer / gasket "thing" made from old head gasket has near enough eliminated the blowing noise. (by all but covering the biggest gap basically)
Sorry so sorry.. but that will do for now. (especially as expecting the head gasket to go any time - so will think about fitting the replacement manifold then!!)
Wow Bodge-O-Rama! LOL! I'm sure I must have bought a car from you in the past? :-)
ReplyDeleteThe really nice thing about old cars is that they'll take it. I once used a cut out cornflake box as a water pump gasket on a Vauxhall Victor and it lasted the entire life of the car.