gigantor919
NAXJA Forum User
Yesterday I thought I would be ambitious and replace my leaking exhaust manifold on my 89' 4.0l auto. It's been getting progressively louder the last few weeks and I finally broke down and started tearing it apart.
Yesterday I got both the manifolds off the car, and all the hoses disconnected. When I took the old exhaust manifold it off I noticed it had actually broken in two pieces!!
Today I spent the better part of the day trying to get this piece of s*%& back together. I had a hell of a time getting manifolds back on and all the bolts and nuts back on (I still have 3 I can't get back on). The egr pipe cracked so I put a plug in on the manifold and some of the vaccuum hoses have broke!!
I wanted to at least get a test drive in to see if the sucker was drivable. Needless to say it's pretty damn far from it. It idles at about 3000rpm, it's spitting raw gas and smoke from the tail pipe and the exhaust leak actually sounds worse.
Any ideas as to what I have done!?! Why is this thing idling so high? Why won't this exhaust/intake manifold line up right, why is it spitting smoke and raw gas out (my nose is still burning!).
Help.
Yesterday I got both the manifolds off the car, and all the hoses disconnected. When I took the old exhaust manifold it off I noticed it had actually broken in two pieces!!
Today I spent the better part of the day trying to get this piece of s*%& back together. I had a hell of a time getting manifolds back on and all the bolts and nuts back on (I still have 3 I can't get back on). The egr pipe cracked so I put a plug in on the manifold and some of the vaccuum hoses have broke!!
I wanted to at least get a test drive in to see if the sucker was drivable. Needless to say it's pretty damn far from it. It idles at about 3000rpm, it's spitting raw gas and smoke from the tail pipe and the exhaust leak actually sounds worse.
Any ideas as to what I have done!?! Why is this thing idling so high? Why won't this exhaust/intake manifold line up right, why is it spitting smoke and raw gas out (my nose is still burning!).
Help.