Hi, I'm Wade from Thoroughbred Diesel, and today we're going to be installing a set of
Fleece Exhaust Manifold studs to the 5.9 and 6.7 Cummins.
We just installed a ATS Pulse Flow Manifold on an '01 Dodge truck here, and we thought
that we'd do a little installation video on the Fleece Manifold studs.
These are really high quality product that Fleece does here.
This is all stainless steel fasteners, and they offer them a couple of different ways.
You can get it with an external hex head, but we elected to go with the one with the
internal Allen head, just like what you would see on an engine stud, 12-point faster, all
really, really good stuff.
This comes in a complete kit, and I think this works for all 5.9 and 6.7 motors.
Right now I think that we've got it listed for all the years.
All the different trucks are going to have different configurations on the exhaust manifold.
Obviously, this is an '01, so now we're not going to be running into EGR issues or the
EGR being in the way.
But even with those components intact, this still is a doable job.
This gives you a lifetime fastener on your exhaust manifold.
So you guys that are going to be doing a lot of different manifold swaps, turbo changes,
whatnot, this would definitely be something to take a look at.
We all know that studs are a superior fastener to bolts, and especially in the light duty
diesel applications, we see it used in heads and so on, but main studs.
But this is just another option for a quality fastener for your vehicle.
So we're going to go ahead and get started with our install.
We want to show you the installation, especially when it comes to some of these aftermarket
exhaust manifolds.
Our ATS Pulse Flow Manifold here has got a delivery rise coming out to the turbo flange
here, so it just barely will skate by there.
They've got a different bolt in that position.
So what we do is we can just go ahead and remove that bolt.
I like to do these one at a time and install it, and then I'll tighten it all down in one
sequence.
I won't tighten it as I go.
But go ahead use your stud here, and with that exhaust manifold gasket, you will have
to use a 4 metric Allen head to get it past the gasket.
Oh, you know what?
Definitely suggest using this on the exhaust manifold bolts and using it on the nut side
as well so that you have a correct torque reading on it.
I'll put a little anti-seize here.
I'll then put my bolt in.
Now what we do is we will run this in and we're only going to take it finger-tight to
the block.
It will bottom out there.
Then we will apply a little bit of this Loctite to the washer and then our nut.
Now, like I said, a lot easier if you don't torque that right now.
Just go ahead and get your stud started on there and get the nut started on, and then
we will come back.
So what we're going to do now is we're just going to go one by one through the manifold.
If we run into any problems, we'll cut back in and show it to you.
But what we want to do is we want to just show you after we get this done the finished
product.
All right.
Now that we've got all of our studs in, the nuts and the washers on.
When you put your nuts on, you got to have the washer behind it, like we had talked about
there, and now it's time to torque.
For the 5.9, I know that the torque spec is 32, 33 pounds.
We run it to 35 here at the shop.
So we're going to go ahead and click off the torques.
When you start on your torque, you just start in the center and start working in a clockwise
motion until you get to the outer most.
So I start at the bottom one, then go to this bolt, this bolt, this bolt, this bolt, this
bolt and so on.
So I'm just working in a clockwise motion is all I'm doing.
Now with the ATS Manifold or this Pulse Manifold, you can't get a socket in here.
So you're just going to have kind of guess on your torque.
I'd take it to a German torque spec, gutentight.
That's good, and then this one as well, and then you can get back into your torque sequence
here at the bottom.
All right.Then you just keep moving right on out clockwise.
So we're going to zip through, torque all these down real quick, and then we'll come
back and we'll show you the finished product.
All right.
So here's our Fleece Exhaust Manifold studs installed on this 24-valve truck.
I definitely suggest this upgrade.
The stock bolts are nice and the spacers are just, it's kind of aggravating having to reinstall
everything with the spacers and then trying to get the gasket and whatnot.
They're really nice to just have the studs in, quick easy installation.
Even with everything on this truck, it would've been a fairly easy installation.
Getting behind the turbo here to get to a torque would've been a little bit of a challenge,
but still could've been done.
Just take your time and work through it.
So all the way down there, it looks good.
If you're doing an upgraded exhaust manifold or whatever you're doing, if you're on the
exhaust manifold, good idea to go ahead and swap out, do these exhaust manifolds studs
from Fleece Performance.
So if you've got a question about this installation or any other Fleece products, let us know.
We're going to do a couple of other videos on this series that we're working in right
now in installing a turbo on this 24-valve truck.
You can check those out here.
Thanks for watching.