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Melted Upper Intake Manifold 1993 3800

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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 07:55 PM
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How do I post pics Guys. I have them on my computer from the digital camera but I am not computer literate at all. Can someone give me DETAILED instructions??

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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 08:06 PM
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How do I post pics Guys. I have them on my computer from the digital camera but I am not computer literate at all. Can someone give me DETAILED instructions??

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Perhaps Pics help
Say you wanted to post this one here


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First you need to LEFT click just once in the IMG tag (circled in red below)
* if you accidentally right click simply left click in the area again.

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And it will turn blue


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now RIGHT click the same area to bring up the options and just LEFT click on COPY, (the option window will close once you do)

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go to BC and in the Message field Right click to bring up the option window and Left click on Paste.

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and your IMG tag will appear.

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To actually See your pics you need to click the preview button down below the Message Body

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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 08:49 PM
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But first you need a photo hosting site like http://photobucket.com/
After joining (it'* free) you upload the pictures from your hard drive to an album in Photobucket.
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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 09:44 PM
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I hope this works guys. I greatly appreciate all the generous help. The UIM is upside down and if you look at the right side port (there is alot of white around it) it has melted. I believe coolant flows there. I have replaced it. The question is--what caused it and are there any potential consequences from it having happened.

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What color of coolant are you running? Red, Orange, or Green?

Did the car overheat? Before or after you owned it?
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Old Dec 30, 2006 | 02:32 AM
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I am running Green coolant. I have never had it overheat on me. Recently installed a new rad and I just had to change the thermostat because we had problems bringing the engine up to temperature.

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The only other solution besides grossly overheating that car is a clogged catalytic converter causing your crossover pipe to overheat, cooking the UIM in the process.
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yeah that one did get toasty. I see smoe discoloration on the bottom side but the picture is too blury to see where it actually failed. It almost looks like the plastic is warped
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Sorry for the blurry pics. It seems that close ups are blurry from a digital camera. Is there a way to take close ups without them being as blurry?? At any rate--these pics are progressively moving away so you can see the damage. The overall UIM itself is not warped or damaged in anyway--just the port which is white has melted away.

I will have the cat punched and report back.

Again, thanks so much for your kind assistance,

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I'm running mine with all those interior ridges knocked clean off. Definatly from overheating, My EGR cracked in half.
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