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Exhaust Flange Covers
Finally broke down and bought the flange covers , a simple twenty minute job turned into a five hour nightmere. Metric & Standard tools, I started backing off the cap nuts on the exhaust...they all came off pretty easily except one,while backing it out the nut stayed on while the whole bolt came out and it was cross threaded to boot,this is the original exhaust. The nut would not come off,i ended up grinding it down to the threads and still no luck. I tried everything. I ended up cutting it off from the bolt to allow it to pass threw the exhaust hole. Now I'm trying to put in a new threaded bolt into the block, the thing was striped enough that i had to re thread it. Ok all I had to do is move the exhaust and tap a new thread, used the proper tools to back out the chrome exhaust covers ,they wouldn't budge..!I ended up striping the cover fasiners and had to drill them out also.I ended up loosening the exhaust nuts under the pipes enough to slide the exhaust out so i could tap it properly and making sure the air sensor?? wasn't compromised.Finally getting it threaded and putting in the new bolt,I ended up replacing the cap nut with a stainless steal one.It doesn't take much to strip the faciner(nuts), IMO they seem pretty sub standard....!
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