I don’t know why he needed something that big or even how he swung it around in an engine compartment.
You ain't never lived until you've worked in a Nike shoe box, swinging a big wrench, removing a mixing elbow :
Not so much a skill as black magic which one acquires over the years. The heavy elbow assembly will be attached to the Xhaust header at the rear of the engine where you can't see anything. This elbow assembly will have a gasket attaced to it and will be heavily coated with parting compound or you willl spend hours trying to remove the last traces of graphite gasket. An exercise guaranteed to fail with a dropped gasket again and again.
My final solution to this was to insert two temporary studs before getting into anything back there :
The next steps, one at a time are to :
slather parting compound on the discharge manifold flange
next coat the gasket on both sides and slide onto the studs
finally coat the flange face on the bottom elbow and slide the whole assembly on over the two temporary studs.
loosley tighten nuts on to the two temporary studs.
insert the original bolts into the two remaining empty holes
remove the two remaining studs from their holes.
screw in the last two original bolts.
Try as I might, this could not be done in one step using only the original bolts.
