NEEDING HELP BAD ON exhaust manifold issues
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NEEDING HELP BAD ON exhaust manifold issues
Hey guys I am needing some help on removing the driver's side exhaust manifold. Went to replace the turbo up-pipes of course the two manifold screws were rusted and seized completely to the manifold. So I tried to drill it out and unfortunately that didn't work. So I thought about removing the exhaust manifold and replacing that side. The truck came from Michigan and had severe rust. I just got done doing a full restoration. Manifold bolts are no exception they were rusted beyond recognition. I have tried every nut extractor sears had, none have worked. So I decided to grind each head off the manifold. I've emptied one whole can of PB Blaster. After grinding them all off... 7 hours later my fear becomes realized: The manifold appears to be seized to the exhaust manifold studs. I've tried hammering, crow bar and everything else I can think of. The way I see it now I have a few options... drill the studs out which I want to avoid, due to extracting the manifold studs, two try to heat the exhaust manifold however it's still in the truck and I don't want to damage wiring etc. The truck only has 120,000 miles and ran great but it had a leak from the turbo which is why this whole repair started. Looking for any suggestions... It's November in ohio and the truck won't fit in the garage so I'm running out of time. Help, ideas, suggestions would all be appreciated.
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Just bought some map gas and more cans of pb blaster thank you for your reply. I really hope this works I feel like I made the biggest mistake possible the passenger side 2 bolts unscrewed so that gave me hope that maybe its not seized to the studs. of course the drivers side is far worse condition I should have known this was going to happen. I am going to heat and spray with map gas there two and see if I can get the collector screw out and save the passenger side manifold. Hopefully it frees up and I will only have one side to do.
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I have a few suggestions that I did on my mason dump rust bucket when i had to replace the manifold.
You can remove the inner fender and use a long sawzall blade to cut the bolts close to the manifold as there is a good gap between the head and manifold. I was able to cut most of them. There was a few that I could not cut and I found a simple solution as I was replacing the manifold any way. The simple solution was to use a air chisel and it just shatterd the manifold at the bolt holes and manifold falls off. The remainder od the bolt will just unthread with fingers or vice grips
You can remove the inner fender and use a long sawzall blade to cut the bolts close to the manifold as there is a good gap between the head and manifold. I was able to cut most of them. There was a few that I could not cut and I found a simple solution as I was replacing the manifold any way. The simple solution was to use a air chisel and it just shatterd the manifold at the bolt holes and manifold falls off. The remainder od the bolt will just unthread with fingers or vice grips
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Replaced the passenger side this spring. the bolts would not move, so we cut around all the bolt and then used a stud remover on the bolts. Reason for replacement was three holes in the manifold. One hole is in the picture that was made larger with the grinder.
John
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Second hole to the left of the bigger cut one.
John
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I'll get it up soon.
Second hole to the left of the bigger cut one.
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I did the same thing Erebus did I was not wanting to torch the studs fearful the problem would get worse I am inspired to make a better nut extractor cause everyone I tried failed big time so as a trained toolmaker I will be thinking of a way to improve this device. I got the drivers side off it took cutting it loose at each cylinder to free it but it got done now I just need to do the passenger side doing similar process I did cut the top loose and try an impact to get the bolts I could out and managed to get 4 half of them so hopefully the other ones will get cut loose soon
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