Does anyone know if the Fenton's Patrick's used to sell were intended for trucks or cars?
Are they different?
NAPA lists flange gaskets for the cars as graphite-looking rings and the trucks as being flat with two bolt holes. I have been using truck pipes and the flat gaskets but they have burned out several times -- yes, yes it's been 20 years but it's still an annoyance and NAPA shows the nearest stock of them in Illinois. I'm in Washington State. They have a dozen donuts in stock locally. I have only one left in my own stock.Maybe it's time to change pipes if that works. That's no small things as they have to be custom bent and all.
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I'm not sure if this would work for your application but there are "Donut" gaskets available with a collar that slides into the manifold flange. You would need to modify the down pipes to accept this style flange, it is doable.
You would need to verify the I.D. of your headers and have your FLAPS match up a gasket.
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To use the donut gasket effectively, the manifold flange and the pipe flange must both be chamfered to mate with the shape of the donut. If they're flat, you'll need to use the gasket, or spend some time with a die grinder, modifying the flanges to match the donut. Jerry
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