OK; got my stock shorty off, went to put my new midlength JBA in (on my 02 GT) and.. it doesn't fit!

Now, I didn't follow the directions when they told me to take the stock intake manifold studs out, since, well, I can't get them out. With the studs out of the way I ought to be able to fit the headers in there and then use the provided studs to bolt the things in. So, any suggestions as to how to get my stock header studs out of the engine? I tried a 5MM socket but with no luck; the things seem like they're superglued in there..

 

anyone....?

 

heat them up

 

In a battle of man versus machine... well, machine has officially won.


Kinda wish I got long tube's now, because I just can't fit the headers onto the engine with the stock studs (the entire bottom half is on, but the top half can't rotate enough with the k member in the way to be put on), so I'll be dropping the k member, following the LT header installation instructions on f'n sweet.

Mustang: 1
Dave: 0

 

pull the motor mount bolts and lift it up a little

 

I've done that.

I've even gone so far as to loosen all of the k-member bolts already, so that the entire front end has moved down a tad as well with the engine up as much as it'll go. However, I have only loosened one side of the motor mount nuts (Passenger, the header I'm trying to install), but I don't think it'll make that huge of a difference loosening the driver's side as well........... will it? [:-]

 

You guys are masoquist, I rather loosen up a few bucks and have a professional installation....

 

I think you meant masochist.... and just because people like working on their own cars doesn't mean they like to make things hard on themselves. That is the whole purpose why people come to this forum; to find help when they are in a bind, not to be told that their idiots for not taking it to a shop. But maybe your to scared of having your pride hurt by discovering your incapable of changeing your own oil.

 

You need to do more than loosen the nuts you have to pull the bolts completely out and lift the motor

 

Yeah, I did that, on the passenger side.
Gonna do it to driver's side and try it out maybe tonight or tomorrow morning... I'm exhausted at the moment, it's like 95 degrees here and I worked digging + moving stone all day