Exhaust Manifold Gasket Job.

Couple days ago I brought a truck in for an inspection and noticed there was a lot of black dust behind the exhaust manifold. I further inspected it and found that the gaskets on this Mercedes engine were most likely bad. So I ordered all of the parts from freightliner and luckily they had them in stock so by the time I pulled everything apart the parts showed up. Again i was alone at the shop working late so i had to think of everything on my own. The first problem I ran into was the turbo nuts where extremely tight. Two of the nuts came out when I put a three foot pipe on the end of my ratchet. But the other two at this point were pretty rounded off. I tried heating the nut up and it didn't work, So then I heated up the base of the turbo and exhaust manifold where they meet so that I could just try to remove it and the stud would just come out instead of the bolt coming loose. And this worked out well and I ended up replacing the studs. In two weeks I did two exhaust manifold jobs. The first job four bolts from the exhaust manifold broke which then I had to use an alignment block and reverse drill bits to extract the broken bolts. So this time I was very careful and I heated up the bolts before taking them off as best that i could to break the rust. It worked out well none of the bolts broke. The rest of the job went good I changed out the gaskets and fired up the truck took it for a test drive and there were no problems. Here are some pictures...

You want to make sure that arrow points up when reinstalling the gaskets

This how I realigned all the bolts and got the exhaust manifold mounted.