BERK HFC's install not going so great.

BerkTech

The damaged nut extractors have worked wonders for me before. For those top bolts I've gotten the cats out every time. Broken a few tools and the heads off a few bolts, but they've always come out with some cursing and praying. Just remember the cardinal rule.... NO IMPACT TOOLS on the top bolts.

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ZforMe

The good news:

BERK HFC's are solidly connected to my headers.

The bad news:

Every muscle in my body hurts and I couldn't complete the job.

Only small items left: connect bracket to transmission and HFC's, connect HFC's to Y pipe, put one nut back on Y pipe (never even tried to get the rounded one off since I was able to remove the cats without removing the Y pipe).

One question: Do I need to remove the brace bolts from the old cats to connect the brace to the new cats? If so, how? If not, what do I use?

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wstar

I love that feeling after a job. It's a good workout, and a nice change of pace from sitting on my *** in front of the computer all day.

Are you talking about the brace with 4 bolts (2 into underside of transmission area somewhere, and one into a tab on each cat)? Yes, you do need to reuse that, and I think you do need to reuse the stock bolts, unless Berk ships extra replacements. I don't remember really, but I think not. Did you just leave the brace on the old cats? In any case, they're just a pair of nut+bolt on each cat, remove as usual.

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ZforMe

Here's the bolt in question, I guess i have to bend the tab up to remove the bolt with the goofy head.

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wstar

Is that really the head of the bolt, or just a giant funny square washer. It's been a couple months since I did mine, so I could just be forgetful, but I don't remember anything like that.

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ZforMe

That is the definately the head. I may just take the 4 bolts i have left for the hfc to y pipe connection to a home depot and match them.

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