Broke header bolt in head!!!!!!
Broke header bolt in head!!!!!! So i was adjusting my headers today and i broke the first bolt on the driver side in the head DAM IT!! well im not sure how to fix this i know i have to drill and tap the hole but do i have to take the head off? and i was thinking because i have about $1100 save that i would just get a set of ported heads and put them on there i was thinking tsp stage 1 ls6 heads im not going for all out peformance and an extra 30 to 50 hp wouldnt hurt at all and i dont have the money for a cam right now either so i didnt want to do them both and this is my daily driver so i cant have it off the road for to long what do you guys think? what would you do?
if you have the money, just get new heads.
if you dont, either drill it out...or you can ultra cheap and just put on ur headers without that one bolt and live with a little exhaust leak.
if you dont, either drill it out...or you can ultra cheap and just put on ur headers without that one bolt and live with a little exhaust leak.
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Same happened to me, same bolt/same head and it did leak like everyone else is saying. I would just swap the heads while you have to take it off anyway. If you can live with a small leak for a little bit, do the whole h/c valvetrain swap while your at it. I did, just make sure you don't try to spin a rod bearing like I did also during the breakin lol
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Drill it out. But you need a hard drill bit, something like carbide. The bolts are very hard.
And when you get that taken care of, do yourself a favor and get you some GM 3.4 v6 exhaust studs and bolts.
Here's the part #'s: # are 11589154 on the studs, and 11609746 on the nuts
-Thanks to Supersub for the revised numbers
-Original idea was by EVILGMC, so thanks to him for bringing this to our attention.
Note: the studs come in packs of 5, and the nuts in packs of 4
And when you get that taken care of, do yourself a favor and get you some GM 3.4 v6 exhaust studs and bolts.
Here's the part #'s: # are 11589154 on the studs, and 11609746 on the nuts
-Thanks to Supersub for the revised numbers
-Original idea was by EVILGMC, so thanks to him for bringing this to our attention.
Note: the studs come in packs of 5, and the nuts in packs of 4
