On 08/01/2018 11:39 PM, Arlen Holder wrote:
On 1 Aug 2018 22:26:00 GMT, rbowman wrote:

Back to your friendly Loctite dealer for the Form-A-Thread kit? Trip to
a junkyard for a new manifold if replacing it isn't too painful? Helicoils?

Seems to me the choices are...
a. New or used manifold (if it's not too hard to replace)
b. Drill it out and helicoil it (nothing to lose really)
c. Clean it up with a tap (I don't have the tap, which won't be cheap)
d. Shove it in there with epoxy (I hate that idea so I don't want to)


The helicoil route won't be cheap either. The epoxy route is redneck
engineering at its finest but this is a 14 year old beater, right?

As an aside, general purpose epoxy isn't a good idea for an exhaust
manifold.

https://www.jbweld.com/products/highheat-epoxy-putty