Demon Bolts

chrischhorn

been a while since a clean success story was posted lol.

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R.I.P. 8/01/13 1SlowZ
One day I'll have another....

critical

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.