trouble with header install
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Staging Lane
Joined: Aug 2006
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trouble with header install i am putting on the ebay headers and i need help. i have the pass. side in and the driver side as well, but the last bolt in the back on the driver side isnt going in all the way. i donot want to muscle it in. its threaded and all i have left to go is about 1/4 inch. what should i do? sould i take the header out and try to do it again or sohould i take both out and go back to manafolds? please i am literaly sick over this and i need some up lifting words.
Hey man i had the same problem with my jet hot lt install but mine was on the pass. side back bolt but it was hard as hell to get in but it took awhile. I dont know if the the header didnt line up with the the hole or what but i was afraid it would pull my threads out but i got it in. See if you can find a bolt that has the same threads and see if it will go in if so get a new headers bolt. A egr or air bolt will go in .
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Staging Lane
Joined: Aug 2006
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would having the 5 other bolts torqued down hinder the last one going in? i loosened them and it went in a little more. i really cant do much cus i am on my lunch break but any advise would be the best news i have heard all day
What I did when I couldn't get that last driver bolt to go in was I took all the bolts out.
Put the first bolt in just enough to hold the header up, then get the last one in. Just be patient and dont let it get to you.
Put the first bolt in just enough to hold the header up, then get the last one in. Just be patient and dont let it get to you.
welcome to what happened to me last week. I had to find a shop that would install it. after 8 of them I found one. I ended up paying a **** hair under 500 dollars for them to reinstall my headers, because they were leaking so bad and they also welded my ORY to my SLP LM catback ( which sounds like crap BTW). anyways long story short, they had to use studs on the drivers side last bolt because he other bolt wasnt going in.
So the 12 hour day I wasted installing the headers myself was a waste, cuz I could have just payed the shop and got it done without wasting time.
Anyways Im gonna take a break and do my cam install a bit later than when I expected.
So the 12 hour day I wasted installing the headers myself was a waste, cuz I could have just payed the shop and got it done without wasting time.
Anyways Im gonna take a break and do my cam install a bit later than when I expected.
