Quality control??
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Yup. It’s not leaking so I wouldn’t even look at it knowing my luck.
It would think I was side eyeing it and it would start leaking just to irritate me.
I’m not poking that bear.
Did you go all of the way through with the drill?
Is there a reason you're keeping the intake make and model a secret?
Nevermind. I missed this post.
This is why I ALWAYS recommend going with vintage stuff. It's always better. The aftermarket always finds ways to make things cheaper. That usually means thinner. It flat out sucks dead rotten elephant balls that it was new.
Luckily it was close to the thermostat housing making cleaning the chips easier.
Thick enough for some threads, thankfully.
Oh wait, after looking at the pics you did not remove the thermostat. I'm sure there is some technique to successively pull that off. I would have to pull the thermostat.
I’m still trying to get my head around what it would be like finding a gravity powered water leak on an out of the box probably $600 plus intake…
Back in the '80's, I worked for a Buddy's Dad, and at some point He purchased a diesel Lynx. Couple of years later, that thing was leaking oil around a head bolt up front, so He pulled the head & brought it to Me. The oil gallery running across the frt. was leaking thru' the casting right to the head bolt hole, so I yanked the plug, sized it & pressed a tube w/sleeve retainer on it into the gallery...pretty long ways there. It lasted for a few months, then sprung somewhere else.....they said screw it & just kept adding oil, lol.......
Let alone the hours he has into the plenum modifications...
Makes you wanna go kick in Holley's front door and beat some ***.
Thanks. It was better than pulling the manifold and running it up to @MOPARMAGA to weld it. I’ll do that when it needs to come off for something else.
Plus, it was all I could think of lol
Trust me, it wasn’t pretty when I figured it out.
I kept thinking it was a pin hole in the upper cooling hose. So I shortened the hose. Then it leaked again so my bone head decided the hose was bad.
So off to town I go to get a different hose.
And…yup the leak is in the same damn spot with a new hose. So Im thinking this is near impossible. I stick my hand under the hose and that’s when I figured it out.
Just baffling.
I probably would have come dangerously close to stroking out right then and there... I don't believe I'd trust who was overseeing the manufacture of that to sling **** in a **** house.
Lol, I'm a glutton for punishment. If something like that doesn't happen for me, I'm double checking till I make it happen.
You think it's just auto parts?
You sweet summer child...
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That is why i signed my name on every part i made when i was building drones. If anything went wrong with my parts, i wanted to know so i could fix the issue for future parts. I only got one type of part back, and that was a resin chemistry issue.
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For a sand casting, I can believe that, particularly if they took Weiand's patterns to a different foundry. There's a lot of steps in between the patterns to making a sand mold to pouring the casting and machining to the final shape, and a lot of places things can go wrong if you cut corners.
Of course, technically the mold in this particular process is something that you're only supposed to use once, after which it collapses into a pile of sand. Maybe Holley really was trying to re-use Weiand's molds.
Yeah, almost everything being made has slipped into substandard malaise mediocrity compared to the way things used to be done. We’ve not reached the bottom yet, but we can see it from here.
Well, that's kinda all we discuss HERE, but yeah, we're gettin fleeced on literally everything.
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