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Old 03-01-2010   #21
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Default Re: Header Bolt Battle

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So....this is a bolt installed in a header, not the original exhaust manifold.

Then this bolt must be only about 3/8 inch showing after you grind off the head (maybe a bit more with the gasket).

Pete's idea of just grind it off sounds like something I would do

After I applied a little heat and vice grips but not too much heat

I did not fill every header fastener position with a bolt either
No it is ont he exhaust manifold.. I used the wrong terminology for it.. sorry
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Old 03-02-2010   #22
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Default Loosen UR nuts...

This from "Sheri" on the unmentionable board...

http://forums.*************.com/c4-g...n-ur-nuts.html

IN case the link does not work, goto the C4 section on CF. She's always worth a chuckle anyway.

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Old 03-02-2010   #23
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Default Re: Header Bolt Battle

Kroil was one of my favorite tools in the tool kit. Wasn't sure if they still made it. Thanks!
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I've never used that stuff, Have heard about it though...Not sure if it's available up here or not...?
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Kroil was one of my favorite tools in the tool kit. Wasn't sure if they still made it. Thanks!
Dom, I can pick some up for ya anytime you need it - Fleetwood has it in stock and is about 5 minutes from the shop. Also, Sinclair International has it in stock in gallon cans, if ya want it. (We use it a lot in the competition rifle game as a cleaning agent for removing copper fouling from the rifling.) I never saw it as a spray, but the afore mentioned Fleetwood has industrial strength spray bottles (chemically resistant) in which one could put some Kroil, I recon.

OR, talk to "Sheri" about getting some .... (or maybe better not.)

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Dom, I can pick some up for ya anytime you need it - Fleetwood has it in stock and is about 5 minutes from the shop. Also, Sinclair International has it in stock in gallon cans, if ya want it. (We use it a lot in the competition rifle game as a cleaning agent for removing copper fouling from the rifling.) I never saw it as a spray, but the afore mentioned Fleetwood has industrial strength spray bottles (chemically resistant) in which one could put some Kroil, I recon.

OR, talk to "Sheri" about getting some .... (or maybe better not.)

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Nothing better. LEt me know how much for a couple of spray cans.
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Old 03-07-2010   #27
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Default Re: Header Bolt Battle

Went to Menards and bought a $17 Angle grinder, took off the safety shield and cut the bolt head off. Exhaust manifold came right off. Will monkey with the remaining stud later.
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bought a $17 Angle grinder, took off the safety shield
Typical guy......
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Typical guy......

I would have just cut it off as well.

but I used to be a machinist thats what Id do then try to get out the stud if it still wont come out and you really really want to get it out the head might have to come off unless I could get a 90 degree drill in there to drill it out and then remove the bolt. done that thousands of times back when I was in the military
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Old 03-08-2010   #30
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My guess is that with the tension off from the spacer it will come off with some heat and set of grips.
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