SANANTONIO06GT

Yesterday I was going to get the prochamber installed but couldnt due to 1 o2 sensor was not moving and the other was crossthreaded inby the shop that I gave a lot of business to. So I buy3 sensors that way I could leave them in there untill inspection time again, go back to another shop where a good friend of mine works and we start removing the Maganflow x. The manifold studs on the driver side loosened no problem. We go to the passenger side, impact the top stud, snaps just like that. My eyes fell out of my head....what in the hell. After seeing that, I was losing it. Owner of the shop says we can drill and use an easy out. We start to loosen the bottom nut, ts not moving at all. Come to find out it, somehow it got crossthreaded on and eventually it snaps. Im am so pissed at that time I knew I was in trouble them. I work maintenance at a food plant here in San Antonio, so I know that these 2 broken studs are not going to come out. Long story short, called Northside ford, ordered some shorties and by later tonight and about $850 later, I will have some headers on the car. It goes to show guys, I guess you really cant trust too many people. Accident??? nope, you know when you are cross threading a nut onto a bolt because you are torquing the crap out of it. I called the shop where I had the work done and he says prove it was me. What else can I do?? I wont post the name of the shop on the here, but if anyone in SA want the shop, Id be more than happy to let you know. Even the parts guy who came to deliver something while the work was being done told me I was screwed.

PLstang

Man I hate to hear stuff like that. Sorry to hear about the trouble. Stuff like that happens...even at better shops. The difference is how they deal with it.

On the good side, I'm sure you'll love the new headers!!

SANANTONIO06GT

Yeah that is the positive side of the story

deekum1627

that sucks man sorry to hear,thats why i do all the work myself, but at least you got headers now lol

Hicompression

The only thing worse than snapping a header flange bolt off is when you snap a spark plug off in the head. Talk about sinking feeling...

pascal

To the OP...

YOU DON'T USE AN IMPACT GUN WHEN REMOVING EXHAUST MANIFOLD BOLTS!!

It's still not your fault but it sounds like only amateurs haveworked on this car so far, including the shop your friend works at.

It's not always easy to remove them, but the impact is a nono. A break-a-bar is more like it, that way, you can gauge when to stop before breaking.

Good luck with that mess now.

svastano

That sucks! I do all my own work too so if I screw it up all I can blame is myself!

loots06

What headers did you get?

8URGTO

D*amn, $850.... you could have overnighted some JBA equal length shorty'scheaper thanthat.. But the upside is at least you can do something about it and you will get a little bit of performance increase and sound with it..... But no, you can't trust just anybody with your ride being that all they care about is just getting it in the door and out the fastest.. Sorry man, I know that everything will work out and let us know how you like the prochamber. Sound clips would be cool. I haven't heard any clips of the prochamber with shorty's

blueherd02gt

Very overzealous... That's why I work on my own ****.. Or somebody I trust