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Originally Posted by chrischhorn
been a while since a clean success story was posted lol.
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Never worked on an exhaust before or really any car before, and I had a clean run
thanks to all the past failures lol and knowledge here.
what i did:
jack up car. spray bolts with PB Blaster. drive car around to heat up exhaust again. jack up car. spray bolt before using a 6 point deep impact socket and breaker bar. tighten bolt first to get it moving. go the other way and losen/remove bolt.
for the two bolts that had to be removed through the engine bay I used a breaker bar and only impact extensions, most of them were swivel extensions. didn't have to remove the Z1 post MAF tubes. for these bolts i placed the impact socket on the bolt first and from under the car and then had someone feed me the extensions so i knew it was flush and wouldn't strip and pressed into the breaker bar with one hand so it stayed flush as i was turning the breaker bar.
used so much force on the top two bolts that i fell once they loosened and wasn't sure what happened at first.
success, no broken bolts and a clean install thanks to the forum members here.