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Originally Posted by d.
my only experience with Gland Rings was some years ago and what I learned was if the surfaces for the rings in the block and the ring surfaces in the exhaust manifold are not perfectly flat and clean, you will crack the ear of the exhaust manifold pretty easily.
The advice given at the time was eliminate the gland rings and you will eliminate the problem. I obtained another manifold, used the commonly available gasket and am still going strong after 30 years.
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Originally Posted by MALAK
Is the early 28 different than later years, as far as gland rings?
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TOTALLY different "gland ring" as each individual copper gasket has the gland ring built into it. To my knowledge, no one is commercially manufacturing them presently.