Header help!

[bowtieman82]

go to summit racing and buy this (SUM-340100) i have it on my 82 and it works great.  and you can buy this bracket for your alternator (SUM-420100). that way all your bracket will match.

[ToddN]

Don't take it to a shop man.  Problem solving and doing it yourself is half the fun of owning these things.

[1LOW4X4]

go to summit racing and buy this (SUM-340100) i have it on my 82 and it works great.  and you can buy this bracket for your alternator (SUM-420100). that way all your bracket will match.

Yeah if you've got $200 to spend on simple bracketry

[bowtieman82]

you dont have to buy them both at the same time.  and its worth the money in the long run. i tried to make a stock on work but all it did was bend the bolt that came off the header. it fixes the problem fast and right. its better to spend a little bit of $$ the a lot later on. do it the first time.

[Tad.]

I would love to do all the work myself. I just don't have a welder nor the experience welding.

[bowtieman82]

so how are you going to fix it, if you cant weld. are u going to pay someone to doit. And then the bracket will look like crap. like i said if you want it to look nice and be strong, then spend the money one time and do it right. so it don't look like crap when you pop your hood.  i know doing thing one your own is good if you have all the right stuuf do get it done but if you cant you have to pay for it. and some time it looks a hole lot better. and you know it will hold up under the pressure  of the pump.

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[Tad.]

Installing the Headers myself. I absolutely do not have the money for them brackets. A simple spacer will do for the time being. I'm 18 years old and heading to MEPS on the 15th of this month. I'm not a 20 year experience mechanic. I bought my truck on whim (fell in love with the 86 when I was 13 years old and hit a stroke of luck on finding one!) when I turned 18 with a loan from the bank. Never worked on anything a day in my life till I bought her. If I'm gonna make mistakes, so be it. I guess I'll learn from them! I really do appreciate you linking me to the brackets though, bud. Something I'm gonna have to buy further down the road.

[Grim 82]

A spacer will suit you just fine for the time being. The biggest cost or obstacle will be getting the rest of the exhaust system fitted up to the headers, but it sounds like you have a shop lined up to do that for you.

heading to MEPS on the 15th

What branch?

[beastie_3]

Hopefully the best one...USMC

[Grim 82]

lol, ok, here we go 

[txchainsawgogi]

i'll install 'em for 50$

[Tad.]

Army.

[bobcooter]

I'm not too sure about an 86 but when I put headers on my 79 I had to buy an A/C bracket and then make a spacer out of some 1/2 galvanized pipe to bolt up with an exhaust manifold bolt.

[thirsty]

I think my spacer used to be an old altenator spacer. I just had to cut it to fit and paint it.