I'm an idiot...
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I'm an idiot...
So funny story, I figured I'd post it on here so people won't make the same mistake I did.
Jump back 1 week to where I'm finishing up my cam swap on my 302 and putting everything back together, I realize I lost the inside middle bolt for the upper to lower manifold, you know the crappy one you have to use a long torx bit to get to?
So anyways I go to lowes and pick up a new bolt, they don't have any that take a torx driver so I get one that takes an Allen driver, I figure I'm gonna be smart and get a 6" long Allen to fit my 3/8" torque wrench and I put a dab of gorilla glue to hold the bolt to the Allen wrench so I can get it down to the hole, as soon as I apply any torque to the wrench the head breaks off in the bolt so now I have an Allen wrench head glued into a bolt that I can't get out.
I'm having to take my manifold off now to check my valve lash and there's no way to get this dang bolt out!! Anyways, I figured y'all could use a laugh at my expense.
Jump back 1 week to where I'm finishing up my cam swap on my 302 and putting everything back together, I realize I lost the inside middle bolt for the upper to lower manifold, you know the crappy one you have to use a long torx bit to get to?
So anyways I go to lowes and pick up a new bolt, they don't have any that take a torx driver so I get one that takes an Allen driver, I figure I'm gonna be smart and get a 6" long Allen to fit my 3/8" torque wrench and I put a dab of gorilla glue to hold the bolt to the Allen wrench so I can get it down to the hole, as soon as I apply any torque to the wrench the head breaks off in the bolt so now I have an Allen wrench head glued into a bolt that I can't get out.
I'm having to take my manifold off now to check my valve lash and there's no way to get this dang bolt out!! Anyways, I figured y'all could use a laugh at my expense.
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