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Old 12-13-2006, 06:16 PM
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Hey all, as a lot of you know I'm redoing my motor from scratch, I know many of you have done this so maybe you can relate to this question. When you are tearing down your motor, which bolt totally pissed you off, made you want to go for a sawzall/die-grinder?

For me no contest, the passenger side upper header bolt(shorties) closely followed by the upper starter motor bolt!

It should be fun to see which ones gave you guys grief!
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Old 12-13-2006, 06:27 PM
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It took me and a friend to get a couple of my head bolts loose. They were gunked and caked up=STUCK!
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Old 12-13-2006, 06:31 PM
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ORIGINAL: gspfunk

It took me and a friend to get a couple of my head bolts loose. They were gunked and caked up=STUCK!
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The only bolts that have ever pissed me off were the ones that snapped. LIke my front left intake bolt, snapped flush with the head [:@].
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Old 12-13-2006, 06:41 PM
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Any bold that results in blood loss or busted knuckles!
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Old 12-13-2006, 06:47 PM
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my stock shortie headers put up a good fight....damn those things.
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Old 12-13-2006, 06:54 PM
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for my car, Im trying to think of 1 bolt that didnt **** me off when I busted em loose!!
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Old 12-13-2006, 07:03 PM
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broke the front intake bolt....had to drill it out....[:@]
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Old 12-13-2006, 07:32 PM
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Wasn't on this go around, but I was replacing the lower intake and had it basically done when one of the bolts to hold the fuel rails down, snapped deep inside the intake, gotta say that one pissed me off bigtime!
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Old 12-13-2006, 07:35 PM
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Not pulling motor out but definetly the worst bolt I had to deal with was the bolts I was using to plug the back of my heads for my smog. Took me about three hours to get them in [:@] I baught the bolts too long so I cut them with my cut off wheel and them couldnt get them to thread back in... WOW, what a PITA!
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water pump bolts that go through the timing cover into the block, everyone broke off in the block.
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