Originally Posted by t walgamuth

I have been replacing all mounting bolts with studs where screwing into the aluminum head. Yesterday I spent several hours installing them for the exhaust header and about 930 last night discovered that the frame rail will not permit the mounting of the header with studs.

I did a really bang up job installing them with red loc tite and the torque wrench so extracting them today will be challenging. My favorite machinist has a stud extractor which I wlll ask to borrow. I imagine some heat will be needed too.

Drat!

This will cost me nearly a day.

The worst of it is that mounting the header was one of the first things I set out to check and somehow got so caught up in the whole stud installing process that I skipped it. A huge brain fart.