can this cracked alum manifold be saved?

well... I will say one thing for the guy...
he refunded my full purchase price WITH shipping to my paypal account and told me to keep the manifold...

 

That's a good seller right there.

 

Hmm most my manifolds are just hanging around for decor ...
Leaks are common.. Really doubt if this one would be noticed with the sender in place

 

okay so now you can fix it how you want and get paid for doing it
and yes lagrave jan 29-30 i believe.

 

There's a place in downtown Mesquite that welds aluminum. He does smoe super expensive canfield heads and lots of high end dragster stuff, but his prices are affordable to the regular guy. I wish I could remember his name.

He told me $40 to repair my cracked pontiac x-2. I haven't had the time to get it to him, but I can vouch for his work. We took him some Ferrari Testarossa heads that had had damage from a dropped valve and they came back as good as new.

Here's the shop.
street view

132 e. Davis St.

 

Thanks!!!

 

Ray Gun nailed it. If you decide to do it right and have it welded, be CERTAIN to drill a small hole at the end of the crack first. Even if you decide to do the JB weld thing, the hole is still the best insurance. The crack will stop at the hole, but may continue if you don't drill it. Doesn't have to be much; 1/64 will do it if you're sure you drill at the end of the crack.

 

I would give the guy a positive feed back on ebay for being standup, whether he knew or not he took care of you...John

 

I dont mind it if the crack is in one of the pictures and i miss it. But when they turn the manifold every whitch way and never get a picture of the defect. 8 pictures but not one close to that area. rotten *******. turn him in. turn him in. turn hin in. jim

 

Turn him in for what nearly 6 weeks later exactly? He refunded the money, what more do you want?

 

After getting a bad aluminum intake off ebay I will not buy a used manifold again unless its for a motor that no new parts are made for it,I have noticed that people selling intakes at swapmeets want almost as much as the new ones go for so its going to be new intake for common motors from now on.

 

just ship it to me, I'll fix it for free...

 

johnny come lately.

 

Id have it welded, grind it smooth and have it spot sand blasted. The sandblasting should get the texture close. But if its not a rare intake you will probaly have more in it then its worth.

 

get an alum. pipe ******,cut it in half,drill out the old threads on the intake to the same size hole as the pipe ******,weld the new ****** in the hole you drilled.
Thats the way to do it,I've done lots of them.
If you just try to weld what you have,it will crack again.

 

Since you aren't going to post his ebay user name, let's move on.
Let's see a picture of the rest of it. How much you want for it?

 

Almost 50 posts for a cracked manfold? The HAMB is really working overtime today, huh? Just think if it were something important.

Frank