well after 4 years of worrying and losing sleep over breaking exhaust manifold bolts, the time is here,, tommorow night my companys diesel mechanic ( i trust him very much ive seen him rip apart western stars and peter builts like mad) is going to start installing my shortie headers,, please pary for me that everything goes well im am so FOCKIN nervouse right now the good news is i got a free pair of hedman shorties with no air tubes FREE i just bought the ultra seal installation kit and 3inch to 2 1/2 o2 collectors. and if everything goes well( lord hear my prayer) i will be ordering up 2 dynomax race bullets and heading down to get a custom true dual,,, so any imput is appreciated!!! and different ideas on mufflers as well,, and of course holding my hand and comforting me will work to hahaha

 

well good luck, he is experienced so he can feel a bolt out ..where as you might just muscle it and break it off. Should be a breeze, but not as much room as a big truck... you owe the man some booze and a mid priced hooker

 

PB Blast the crap out of the bolts tonight. Worked well for me. Good luck!

 

That is the beautiful thing about working in a shop, a box of donuts and a cup of coffee can get you alot of work done.

 

PB blaster is your friend right now...I had a buddy try to put LT's on his 98 F-150 and didn't use anything other than WD-40. He broke 3 bolts off in his heads (2 passenger and 1 driver's side) Talk about shooting yourself in the feet. I warned him and he did it anyways. lol

 

yep with that PB Blast, the bolts practically unbolt themselves. Great stuff.

 

Very true, in my case, those manifold bolts came undone with almost no effort on the ratchet. These were bolts that were completely rusted on an engine with 94K.

 

All of mine came right off ... two were already a bit loose - either that
or all the PBBlaster I sprayed on scared those bolts loose!

 

Anyone ever hear of JIG A LOO ****s amazing

 

btw there STUDS and the manifold and studs are now saturated in pb blasters,, they where saturated with JIG A LOO this morning and ill probably hit em again tommrow morning

 

Never heard of it, where do you get it?

 

http://www.jigaloo.com/en/where/usa/

Well, unless you're in Canada

 

ALL THE BOLTS CAME OUT NO PROBLEM

THANK YOU PB BLASTER and thanks to all the members who helped with input,,, very much appreciated

 

I can vouch for pbblaster, I didnt use it when I was unbolting the stock y pipe and I broke one of the manifold studs clean off because the nut seized. Then I stopped sprayed everything down, next morning the rest came off real easy. When I do my headers I will probably use an entire can, then again If I break a bolt off in the head it won't be too big of a deal since I'm pulling the heads anyway.

 

i prefer aerokroil over pb blaster. when the blaster fails, the kroil keeps going

it's available at www.kanolabs.com