Big prob with clifford header and alt brkt.

[Anonymous]

I recently purchaced a set of headers from Clifford for my 96' f-150, Here's the problem, when was pre-assembling the motor out of my truck, i bolted the front header on and then tried to bolt on the absuredly large alternator/air pump bracket, and found that i am not able to even remotly close to being able to bolt the bracket on with the header. to make a long story short, the header hits the bracket. What i need to know now is, what do i do? lol

Does anyone make aftermarket brackets? or can i just take my stock bracket and introduce it to my bench grinder? Either way, looks like the Eddie bauer isn't going to be making it to woodward this year

 

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure if this will help but, on my '68 I used some 1" tubular bronze spacers between the alternator bracket and the block to give me more clearence, and a good washer between the spacer and the block to help distribute the stress.

 

[Anonymous]

Is it the dual headers or the single outlet one like I have? I remember reading that with the duals you have to cut the altinator bracket in half.

 

[Anonymous]

Wildjon, I have a similar setup as you with regards to the Clifford stuff. Do you have any problems with sealing the headers on the #6 tube. I've got a constant leak at the top left of that header pipe. It looks like the headers aren't being pushed high enough to cover the port but I can't get it to go any higher.

 

[Anonymous]

I had the same problem...except I always thought it was just me night tighting the bolts enough. What I did to fix the problem is take a jack under the exhaust system I had ran and jack it up enough (this is after putting the fist bolt in on the front) to seal. I tightened it up and t hasn't leaked since.

 

[Anonymous]

Yup, I tried something similar I hooked my engine hoist up to the #6 tube and pulled up on it while tightening the bolts. My headers have something that looks like a weld blob on one of the lower flanges on the headers that hits the intake manifold. I thought it might be some kind of locator or something. If I have to take the headers off again I was thinking of grinding the blob off. :roll:

 

[Anonymous]

yes it is the aluminum one. I did take the grinder to it, and it now bolts up fine.