Thread: warped exhaust manifolds...

I had heard strories about TD5's being chipped, then occassionaly having problems with exhaust manifolds warping... some say due to the excess heat from the higher fuel/air mix.. yadda, yadda, yadda..

does sound like there's much correlation between the two..

thanks for your help..

regards,

I hope mine does not have this trouble. It is almost 120,000km so I guess if problems are going to happen it will be soon.

G'day fellas. just had my TD5disco 's 160000 major service, and he noticed a couple of exhaust studs broken,they replaced all the studs and nuts machined the manifold, and replaced a leaking cam plug at font of the head.the service was $700. and the manifold was $900

Originally Posted by cricket

and the manifold was $900

I think you have been overcharged slightly.
Book time for the manifold is only 1.40hrs so even if they bumped it up to 2.00hrs it's still a lot more than I would have expected.
Machining should not be more than $100 - $150 & the gasket & studs will come to around $100.

Did they have to drill out any broken studs ? That can be an expensive excerise depending on access.

BTW, a brand new manifold can be bought from Land Rover for around $800.

Originally Posted by cricket

G'day fellas. just had my TD5disco 's 160000 major service, and he noticed a couple of exhaust studs broken,they replaced all the studs and nuts machined the manifold, and replaced a leaking cam plug at font of the head.the service was $700. and the manifold was $900

You were seriously ripped off, i'd be back to ask why a shaved manifold was $900 seeing as a new one is $800.


I had mine done recently $120 for a exchange manifold.

Baz.

$90 to have mine shaved. Can't remember what the gasket was but I got replacement studs from auto pro. Took in an old stud and had them match it up to a new one. Stud removal kit was only about $10.

The manifold cost $100 to machine,they had to drillout 4 studs and halicoil 2 of those, replaced all studs and nuts with new. replaced cam plug-seal$40 odd buck for seal,labor =8hrs@$75.36 per hr, new gasket etc,drilling out studs can be a pain i suppose, all adds up the gasket was about $45

Recently had the same problem, my local bloke does exchange reworked manifolds modified by removing the webs, changed all the studs for after market and replaced manifold great so far time will tell but they have not been wrong before