UPDATE ON EXHAUST PROBLEM... Get this...
01-08-2003, 03:21 AM
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*shrug*
South of Chicago. I'm about thirty minutes out of the city. I wish I could tell you my friend. That's what I was told and I guess the rest of the guys believe it is something that is possible. I wish I could tell you one way or another. I'm still learning.
01-08-2003, 03:44 AM
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one last (IT"S NORMAL FOR THEM TO BREAK)
Most mid 80s cars have the studs broken. I was told it has to do with the studs not being heat treated or something like that. Whether heat treat or whateveer, the stud design was wrong. With the aluminum head and cast exhaust manigfold, the heat and expanssion does them in.
I wouldn't use ones that come from an existing engine. spend the money and get the new studs.
I wouldn't use ones that come from an existing engine. spend the money and get the new studs.
01-08-2003, 05:22 AM
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Re: UPDATE ON EXHAUST PROBLEM... Get this...
I am in Southern California. Yes, it was a run of the mill muffler shop. They are very reasonable, considering that they charged me $90.00 for a brand new muffler installed on my 1991 Vanagon, when the other shops wanted close to $300.00 for it.
01-08-2003, 07:31 AM
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Re: i did mine, but not a turbo. (long)
I'll second what AudiJim had to say. My battery angle drive is a Makiita, 9.6 volt. Battery life is short but they don't make it in higher voltage. One thing I have done, try at your own risk. I have drilled a very small hole very close to the edge of the broken stud, then increased the drill size in small steps so that eventually the drill broke through the steel into the host threads. This seemed to release some of the tension. Also allowed penetrating oil to penetrate.
If you do use an easy-out, I reccommend the "snap-on" variety. Other people make them, but I don't know the generic name.These differ from others in that they have a "socket" end. They resemble a socket with a small "easy out" tip.
Since the head is aluminum, and I doubt there is a water passage nearby, you might consider drilling the whole thing and using a "helicoil" replacement. Since there is no place of concern for the shavings to fall, you could just retap it.
If you do use an easy-out, I reccommend the "snap-on" variety. Other people make them, but I don't know the generic name.These differ from others in that they have a "socket" end. They resemble a socket with a small "easy out" tip.
Since the head is aluminum, and I doubt there is a water passage nearby, you might consider drilling the whole thing and using a "helicoil" replacement. Since there is no place of concern for the shavings to fall, you could just retap it.
01-08-2003, 07:46 AM
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I posted this to another board, watch this link
This board has 6000 members, lots of odd experience there.<ul><li><a href="http://www.moparts.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/056995.html">http://www.moparts.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/056995.html</a</li></ul>
01-08-2003, 02:33 PM
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Great board... and you can do a search
All questions are supposed to be Mopar related. You can see I have about 1200 posts so I guess I get a little slack. Anyway a lot of topics are covered, upholstery, painting, metal stretching, etc. There is a "Search" button on the first page, you can search by keyword. Because of volume topics fall off the server after about 30 days. They took up a Pay-Pal collection to increase storage, should happen. There is a common question area reachable from the index. Most of this is Mopar specific, but there is some general interest stuff there.