Head Intake Threads and Seals ... Head Hog?

[Jerry Wieland]

It is not uncommon to find an original 47 that does not have a brass intake but I assume that this brass intake problem reared its' ugly head fairly quick. So was the brass intake in 1947 just part of a year or were they replaced with steel. Probably will never know unless blueprints exist somewhere.

Jerry

[T. Cotten]

For what it's worth,
I re-fitted a bronze UL manifold today, and it was from a '46.


....Cotten

[Neil74]

I'll check my 47EL in the morning, I think it is the bronze intake on mine. Cotton any word on this sealer for the intake threads
http://www.cylinderheadsupply.com/kl1379.html

[T. Cotten]

I'll check my 47EL in the morning, I think it is the bronze intake on mine. Cotton any word on this sealer for the intake threads
http://www.cylinderheadsupply.com/kl1379.html

Neil!

Seal-Lock again survives this year's summer-blend of local P4gas (Shell),
but it has its limitations: It is not a structural adhesive. It bonds on a molecular level, but is not great for filling voids.
It is ideal for the sealing and peening of the rivet, however. But at thirty bucks a bottle, its extreme medicine (unless you have other uses for it, such as valve seats, guides, crack pinning, etc.)

J-BWeld has held up better this year than last.
It would be my choice for the threads and shoulder.

It is a shame that we do not know what Indian used.

....Cotten

[Neil74]

Cotten if we need to remove the nipples or rivets again, can this be done with J-B weld? Also any idea what they used on the early aircraft intakes?

[T. Cotten]

Cotten if we need to remove the nipples or rivets again, can this be done with J-B weld? Also any idea what they used on the early aircraft intakes?

Neil!

Sorry for another late reply,
but since the new forum format takes several minutes to open, at 2 cents a minute to my lan line provider, I may have to dismiss this forum to only view when I have borrowed time on other peoples computers.

This has been pushed further to be a genuinely a rich man's hobby.

JBWeld dissolves in methylene chloride strippers.
The fear is that it will in modern fuels as well.

I have no information about aircraft assemblies at all.
But I do know that modern aircraft fuels are not nearly as digestive as pump gas.
To me, that makes aircraft techniques somewhat irrelevant.

....Cotten

[Chris Haynes]

[QUOTE=T. Cotten;99830]Neil!

Sorry for another late reply,
but since the new forum format takes several minutes to open, at 2 cents a minute to my lan line provider, I may have to dismiss this forum to only view when I have borrowed time on other peoples computers.

This has been pushed further to be a genuinely a rich man's hobby.

Cotten,
AOL is FREE.

[Rub]

Chris,
AOL may be free in a populous area, but in the hinterlands where I live there is no such thing. I depend on a local service provider. A small price to pay to stay away from civilization!
Robbie

[T. Cotten]

And AOL was anything but free when I first started out on it back in the '90s.
(But it did let me publish a website with common MS software, and not need to fathom FTPs.)

Back again to topic,
I failed to mention my favorite goober that has gotten me out of trouble so many times:
Tnemec's Omnithane Series 530 isocyanate urethane aluminum primer.

It has proven P4gas-proof, so far.

...Cotten

[Neil74]

Tnemec's Omnithane Series 530 isocyanate urethane aluminum primer,now thats a mouthful:) I tried JB weld on an old mustang gas tank once, two months latter a slimmy gob came off and I was leaking again.:)) 47th post had to edit an mention my Knuckle and Chief:) just seemed fitting.