I have car exhaust manifold on the drivers side of my 61 Unibody that had been cut off and made shorter to clear the Z-bar for the clutch and stick welded back together. I had the truck about 2-3 months and looked one day and wondered how a car manifold was used on a truck!! It was one there when I bought the truck 10 years ago and still works great with no problems. I've stick welded back together cast iron using nickle rods  and pre-heating the area with a torch and then cooling it off slowing also with a torch and always had great luck. I've never used the newer rods they have made now a days for cast to see how they work.

Michael

Sandy Valley, NV

My left side exhaust manifold is welded. It was broke completely in two pieces. Held up for a year now .. xx (fingers crossed)

Doing Fords for 45 years. '56 Customline Victoria

E.J. in Havana FL

Cody,

I sent you a pm about the bellhousing.

Butch

Butch Lawson

Manchester,  TN

I should have taken a picture.  I think I know what happened.  There was a dencent sized dent in the frame on the same side as all of the broken pieces.  I am thinking that somehow the engine fell during an overhall either during installation or uninstalling and the bell took the brunt. 

Did that on a 57 intake and it worked out fine. And it's still working.

-Gary Burnette-

No ruffled feathers here either.I've been stick welding cast iron for 50 years.It's only been the last few years that people started saying you can't do that.

 

Paul,

Boonville,MO

Dan.  No ruffled feathers on my end for using a stick welder to weld cast iron.  That’s my own preferred method for cast iron welding although I’m also considered pretty fair at both MIG and TIG welding.  While the Y was at the EMC challenge, several students commented on the welding on the mounts and the accelerator linkage as they thought it was an unusual weld pattern for a wire feed.  They were surprised when I told them it was stick welded as that particular style of welding was not being tought as part of their curriculum at UNOH.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

Tim, my thoughts exactly! couldnt see how there would be a shortage of these in the US. Why would anyone want to use something that is a definite liability!!. regards bill.

  AussieBill            YYYY    Forever Y Block     YYYY

 Down Under, Australia

Pre-heat and wire feed, that's what I do when modifying for the T-5, but if it is a matter of a shattered bell get another they aren't that hard to come by.

   God Bless.   Tim                           http://yblockguy.com/

350ci Y-Block FED "Elwood", 301ci Y-Block Unibody LSR "Jake", 312ci Y-Block '58 F-100, 338ci Y-Block powered Model A Tudor

tim@yblockguy.com  Visalia, California    Just west of the Sequoias

Probably going to ruffle some feathers with this one, but you can stick weld cast iron with a nickel rod without preheating in short beads allowing the weld to throughly cool

and peening while cooling. Slow but always works for me