Catchpole

I don't know why but for some reason it seems like every six months of so my header bolts come a little loose, I seriously doubt at my level of performance that this is normal. What can I do to stop this? I don't mind tightening most of the bolts down but the cylinders 2-4 mostly 3 and 4 really suck to get to, it seems they're nearly impossible.

My questions are is there something I can do to stop the bolts from backing out, and how do you get to the back bolts?

mjr46

stage 8 locking header bolts will solve the issue

white93pony

remove them and add just a little bit or red silcone to the threads before reinstalling

cch

Tend to have this problem on some of the stangs we work on down home. We just have a special high quality do-it-yourself wrench that we took a torch to and bent at a 90; works wonderful. Anyhow it's not a fix but it'll make things a little easier. Good luck bro

cortlan

don't want to hight jack your thread "Catchpole" but I wanted to get the stage 8 locking bolts ... do I use the 3/8"? and then what length do I get... I have ceramic coated equal length MAC headers...

Jerome99

I use stock bolts with lock washers, I haven't had one had one back out on me, depending on what gasket you use I would re-tighten them every couple of months anyway.

87Stallion

Mine used to do the same until I switched to ARP Header bolts. No porblems since.