Doing long tubes, my Y pipe has been off before when the converter went in, none of those bolts broke. Any thing I can do so I dont break any bolts off in the head? Will soakig them in rust eater help?

Neil

 

Spray the hell out of them the night before with penetrant, I prefer pb blaster. Then spray them again in the morning. Also apply pressure on them smoothly, don't go banging on the wrench with a hammer to break them loose.

 

soak them in a GOOD penetrant...pb blaster or kroil(wd 40=suck) a couple times as cb just said, and make sure to use a 6 point socket.

 

At a muffler shop we did manifold jobs alot, and if the PB blaster didnt do it we would heat up the bolt and turn it out slow. But I dunno if you have a torch at the house of Neil

 

I soak all bolts that look like they are going to cause me trouble with PB blaster for a couple days.

 

Cool, last thing I want is broken manifold bolts.

 

slow and straight is the best way to take them out. and use longer stroke's.. Hmm are we still talking about manifold bolts'?

 

150k miles 10 years old got all the header bolts out with no problems but the manifolds bolts broke 5 out of 6 but not worried about them pacesetter LT's going in

 

The correct way is to get the exhaust bolts hot (or atleast warm) trust me.... either they will strip the threads or break when you try and take them out when they are cold. You could get lucky and not have a problem but from my experiences I personally would take out any kind of exhaust bolt hot.

 

Lots of PB blaster.....and go verrrrry slow.

 

hey if i were u neil i would replace the header bolts and get some allen heads bolts.

SO much damn easier to tighten and get too... kinda hard in some placess to put a socket too...

i had to do that for my driver side rear header bolt.