JESUS!! I need HELP!! I have the hoist, the engine is up axles are out.. 1 problem!! I can't get the headers off the downpipe, I have tried everything, moving it around, pushing it BUT to no avail I can't get it out b/c i have to pull it towards the front of the car and I can't b/c the headers are on, and the screws are rusted i broke 3 sockets already, I mean this bad boy won't come off!!
And now the engine is floating almost FREE in the air, the hood is off, if it rains i am screwed, the chain snaps I am screwed SOMEONE TELL ME SOMETHING TO DO!!!!
Jose
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last edited by PreludeNYC; 12-29-2001 at 10:46 PM.
Originally posted by prelude2005 you try WD 40 on it? **** man...im stumped
I've used a whole bottle, with the headers in the way I can't move the engine towards the front to clear the tranny mount... the screws are RUSTED BIG TIME!!!! And like I said I broke three 17mm sockets already and they aren't cheap they are Craftsman...
Take the header off of the engine itself and then diconnect the downpipe from the cat, then you should be able to get the engine out! I hope this helps you man!
P.S. If that doesn't work, cut the phucker off!!!!!!
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Originally posted by Donny_UGA I just wish I wasn't worried about the airbag. however if i wreck bad enough to need it. I probably deserved it.
I used a breaker bar already and broke the sockets, I used the black ones and its just so tight it doesn't even budge!! I used torque wrench but to no avail. I would wanna disconnect it from the Cat, but I removed the cat and welded a 2.5" pipe from the down pipe back so I can't do that either, OK what do I need to cut the headers off??!
Do you have an air compressor? If so, use a die grinder(cutoff wheel, to cut the pipe. If you don't have that, go rent a sawzall or as a last resort you can use a hacksaw.
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Originally posted by Donny_UGA I just wish I wasn't worried about the airbag. however if i wreck bad enough to need it. I probably deserved it.
Originally posted by OutlawLude Do you have an air compressor? If so, use a die grinder(cutoff wheel, to cut the pipe. If you don't have that, go rent a sawzall or as a last resort you can use a hacksaw.
Nah I don't have an air compressor.... So i guess I am gonna havta use a hacksaw..
Originally posted by OutlawLude It's just a slang term for an Oxycetylene torch. The torch will cut through anything and everything that you could possibly want it to!
you think it'll get the job done, b/c its either that or hack it off...
it'll definitely get the job done, but for the time it takes to find one, rent it, do the job and return it, you would have been done cutting it with the hacksaw and you would have saved money.
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Originally posted by Donny_UGA I just wish I wasn't worried about the airbag. however if i wreck bad enough to need it. I probably deserved it.
Originally posted by OutlawLude it'll definitely get the job done, but for the time it takes to find one, rent it, do the job and return it, you would have been done cutting it with the hacksaw and you would have saved money.
OK, I just got back from the hardware store, I bought that propane baby tank and I am going to heat it up... and hopefully that'll do the job. i am a kinda worried about 1 thing tho... in my attempt to unscrew that bolt I used WD-40 I am worried about like it catching on fire.... what do you think?
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