[Shotimes] exhaust stud?

[Bruce Malachuk]

Well it turns out that I actually unscrewed the stud from the manifold
on one of the front ones. I don't know how the hell I did it, but I'm
betting that I beggared up the stud mounting hole when I did so. I'm
going to go looking around for the studs that Ron used as I think that
they would make it significantly easier to drop the y-pipe in the future
as they won't be all rusty. Ron any suggestions on where I can find
those particular type of studs?


Outta curiosity, does anyone know if there are stainless steel stud sets
out there with stainless hardware? That way I would think that rust
would not be a problem ever again in the future. 

Also can the 3.0 front manifold's come off the car while the engine is
still in the car? Or for that matter can the rear manifold come off too
with the engine in the car? I'd like to take them to someone with a
torch and pull the studs out and redo all four if I'm going to do it.
Course I'm prolly making more work for myself than I need to.


 Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Porter [mailto:ronporter@prodigy.net] 
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 7:25 PM
To: 'Bruce Malachuk'; shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] exhaust stud?

Yep, I broke all 4 studs!!

When drilling them out, your hopes for saving the threads are about nil.

Look at my site for the GM studs I used under the Rod Bearing Job:

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?username=rsporter

Using 3" studs would make it easier, but the 2.5" do work.

Basically, I put a nut above & below the stud to hold it to the
manifold,
then the third stud holds up the y-pipe. The original threads in the
manifold were drilled out and were obviously worthless.

Ron Porter 

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Bruce Malachuk
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 6:52 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: [Shotimes] exhaust stud?


I just broke off an exhaust stud on the front manifold, trying to get my
damn SHO shop equal length y-pipe off. How hard is it to remove the
front manifold while the engine is in the car so that I can get it to an
exhaust place to have a new stud put into it? Also is there a particular
"better" stud to use. I remember reading something about a GM stud that
someone out there used, but it was a while back and I'm in no mood to go
searching for it.
 
 
Bruce
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