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HT32BSX115
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Darrell,
There's icons in the window you use to type your messages in this BBS software. (When you reply, look above where you're typing)
If you "Mouse-Over" each icon(don't click yet), a short description will "pop-up".
The one that looks like a little "mountain" is the image insert icon. Using it, you can insert either pictures from your own computer or copy/paste a link to a picture from the web.
Another way to do it is using links provided at sites like PhotoBucket and/or other photo-hosting sites. That's the way I usually do it since i'm usually posting pictures that I have saved at Photobucket for this reason.
Here's an example:
[?IMG?]http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a317/nixypixy07/55%20Ford%20F600/292-F600.jpg[?/IMG?]
The above link (without the ? before and after "IMG") displays the picture below.
Cheers,
Rick
 Each picture is a slightly different "link" you just copy/paste (from Photobucket) into this message window
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Outlaw56
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HT, how do you post those nice pictures in your post?
Darrell Howard Whitefish, MT Outlaw 56 Ford F-100's
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HT32BSX115
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There are of course, flared exhaust ends but they are a lot harder to fabricate.........and wouldn't work here anyway......
It would have been nice if the manifold had a tapered/concave end on it so one could use one of those "doughnut" gaskets and a flared/flanged pipe end. it would probably seal much better and be a little more forgiving to engine vibration and movement.
As it is, I'll have to use flexible joints in the exhaust system.like these...
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Outlaw56
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Bad choice of words on my description Charlie. I can see how I made it confusing. I was originally thinking the pipe had a flare on it like a flared tubing fitting. Not sure where I dreamed that one up.
Darrell Howard Whitefish, MT Outlaw 56 Ford F-100's
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HT32BSX115
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Yeah, since the 'seal' is between the flange and the flat mounting surface of the manifold, , the flange only needs to be flat so it can crush the exhaust gasket.
The pipe is ("butt") welded directly to the flange. The flange needs to be thick enough so as not to warp when it's welded. If it does warp, and it's 3/8" or 1/2" steel, it won't warp much if at all (1/2" inch is way over-kill)
It'll look something like below:
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I don't understand what you are trying to describe, but so long as you can fasten the pipe to the manifold, any method of welding will do.
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Outlaw56
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Oh geze, how could I have overlooked that. Now that you said it, its so obvious. So really, there is not a flange on the end of the pipe, its just flush and welded on the side where it starts into the flange. Correct?
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charliemccraney
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The pipe is welded to the flange so a little clearance doesn't matter.
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I might be over thinkin this, but if you make your own, dosen't that big hole in the middle of the flange flange have to be "perfect" so there is no exhaust leak? I guess if the end of the pipe where it passes thru the flange is flared, the hole would not have to be accurately "machined". But then it would need more than just a circle in the middle of the flange to recess the flanged pipe to sit flat agains the manifold surface. What am I missing? It sounds like making it yourself would be more difficult than just shaping the flange and cutting one big hole in the center and two bolt holes to mount.
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The plasma cutter will make it easier. Use a scribe to trace a gasket and mark the hole centers, cut it out with plasma, clean it up with a bench grinder or angle grinder and a coarse sanding disc then drill your holes. I think the angle grinder works better than the bench grinder because you have more control and you can clamp the piece in a vice so you don't have to hold onto a burning hot chunk of metal while grinding and the sanding disc removes material very quickly but tends to leave a better finish than the grinding stone.
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