Headers install tips? Cliff???

[Schrade]

Headers should be here in a few days; anyone got tips? Snappics?

Did this once in a CJ-7, with lots of working real estate; not quite so much room under this twister...

[Dynomite]

Originally Posted by Schrade

Headers should be here in a few days; anyone got tips? Snappics?

Did this once in a CJ-7, with lots of working real estate; not quite so much room under this twister...

Exhaust System Replace with Headers
Exhaust Headers Locking Bolt Tricks

I would definitely use Stage 8 Locks and take your time.....You do not have to place Header Bolt in every manifold bolt hole.

Installing Headers and Exhaust

I would highly recommend using a 1/4 inch socket, 1/4 inch Universal and 1/4 inch extensions (wobbles) as much easier to work in tight spaces around Headers.

Also....I think the Stage 8 Bolts are steel and can be picked up using a magnet on a stick...so have that handy

[We Gone]

Be ready to address the dip stick were it attaches to the header bolt.

[WARP TEN]

Originally Posted by Dynomite

Installing Headers and Exhaust

I would highly recommend using a 1/4 inch socket, 1/4 inch Universal and 1/4 inch extensions (wobbles) as much easier to work in tight spaces around Headers.

Also useful are ratcheting box wrenches. I think 10mm for those bolts but not certain. I brought a set over when Marc H and I were installing prototype headers on my '93 in the mid-nineties. He liked them so much I gave them to him as a present. --Bob

[Dynomite]

Originally Posted by WARP TEN

Also useful are ratcheting box wrenches. I think 10mm for those bolts but not certain. I brought a set over when Marc H and I were installing prototype headers on my '93 in the mid-nineties. He liked them so much I gave them to him as a present. --Bob

Yep

And make sure those Ratcheting Box Wrenches are Flex Head

I use the wobble extensions on almost everything. The wobble extensions are in first picture and flex ratchet combination wrenches in second picture.



Exhaust System Replace with Headers

[Schrade]

Thanks there Steve; will keep it in mine here...

Cliff - second link is dead Dbase error

Post 45 - Exhaust System Replace with Headers

Dropping bolts? You mean there's hiding places UNDER the headers? THAT'S good news...

Now if you drop stuff....here is the tool...

[Dynomite]

Originally Posted by Schrade

Thanks there Steve; will keep it in mine here...

Cliff - second link is dead Dbase error


Dropping bolts? You mean there's hiding places UNDER the headers? THAT'S good news...

The links seem to work for me.....

I mean dropping those locks (two parts consisting of the lock and the keeper for the lock) which are thin and find themselves among the header tubes.....

[efnfast]

Regarding the stage 8 bolts, I couldn't get the keepers on, actually, the shop that installed my headers couldn't get the keepers on. The clip was thicker than the groove it goes in. So in other words, I paid $75 for header bolts.

[GOLDCYLON]

Remove the inner fenders for more room.

[Karl]

Originally Posted by efnfast

Regarding the stage 8 bolts, I couldn't get the keepers on, actually, the shop that installed my headers couldn't get the keepers on. The clip was thicker than the groove it goes in. So in other words, I paid $75 for header bolts.

All that is needed is to trim the locking tabs for them to fit.

I will be using stage 8 bolts and copper header gaskets as I do not want to do this job twice!