Short question on this topic. Is it possible to go pay a shop just to remove ONLY the two top bolts ? would cost at most $30 and would save
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08-01-2011, 04:02 AM | #46 (permalink) |
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Short question on this topic. Is it possible to go pay a shop just to remove ONLY the two top bolts ? would cost at most $30 and would save you the hassle of stripping it etc ?
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08-01-2011, 04:37 PM | #47 (permalink) |
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Some shops have had the same issues because they think they can just pop the bolt right out. Next thing you know they're torching the thing and charging you 3 hours of labor.
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I had two demon bolts on mine...what a ******* ordeal that was. I had the car on the lift 3' up with a guy under holding the socket on the bolt. I was on a 6' ladder with a 2' breaker bar and a floor jack handle as a cheater. I sheared them both off, by far the easiest way to do it.
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Soaked mine a couple of times with PB blaster overnight and tackled it the next day by myself. Sheared one off on the pass side. the rest made a lot of noise, but came off.
The Driver' side was the hardest to do. Sure was nice to get rid of those stock cats. Mine was just on ramps. Wrap a towel around the end of your breaker bar so not to dent the hood if the bolt breaks.
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I should just take a picture when I get home.
I believe it was a 14mm impact socket. Used that with two straight 1/2" extenders to the Ratchet with a piece of 1" Conduit over the end to give me the force needed to move. I also have 1/2 impact swivel for the Drivers side.
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Doing mine this weekend.. gonna be fun
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Lol Joy!!! Good luck with that, I also had to resort to cutting one of the heads off w/ a dremel and shaking the hell out of the cat to break it free. The other came off when using a 3 ft breaker bar, a pipe and pushing body weight on it, but busted my hands all up. It's no cake walk that's for sure.
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And probably harder since heat and rust will probably play a factor now. Even the O2 sensors are hard to get off once they've been heated/infused into the threading for so many miles.
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