will gungum stop exhaust manifold leak?
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leak between turbo and manifold..if i put some gungum on it , will it do the job? what is the max working temp for gungum?

I'd say it was a bodge, fix it properly.

I've found that gungum normally blows out/ breaks up if the mating faces arent seated properly anyway, so its not a fix.

IMO.

It hasn't worked for me in the past. I had the exhaut housing and manifold surface ground and then just bolted them together without a gasket. Not had any problems since!

Edited by jom on 27th Dec, 2009.

No the gum gum cracks and falls out!

i have used a good quality silicone selant for this joint on my car before and worked fine. however, it is a bodge, fix it with a proper gasket.

incidently i still use silicone selant for the manifold - head join as the OE gaskets kept blowing out. but by good quality i meen ~£40 a tube. more expensive than a proper gasket. fix it properly.

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Denis O'Brien.

oh ps.. rover on the coupe turbo's had NO gasket between turbo and manifold, jsut both machined perfectly flat. no sealant, and no gasket. As per starmag :)

turbo 16v k-series 11.9@118.9 :)

Denis O'Brien.

If you really have to, use Firegum instead of GunGum, but its still not the proper answer.

same as Evo, I have used high temp RTV, but its a bodge, I bet the manifold is out of sorts... I now use an SC stainless manifold, but then I'm not using a turbo.

I run a supercharger and I don't care the TB is on the wrong side.
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i have always found it heats up, goes hard and works its way off/out when using it :)

I always had problems with this joint. I used to use exhaust wrap, metal self amalgamating stuff, then a bit of gungum too.

It never leaked.

Most important thing is to have a good bracket on bottom of the box to stop the joint moving.

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why not just fix it properly ?

9.85 @ 145mph
202mph standing mile
speed didn't kill me, but taxation probably will

I could just never get mine to seal, no matter what I did.

Worth mentioning here is that the standard Metro Turbo clamp needs modifing or getting the joint to seal is near impossible.

search on here I think there's a thread somewhere

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