Broken Stud Removal in Exhaust Manifold

I want to see you do this mounted and down in the engine bay. 😄
Honestly man this is textbook bolt removal and part inspection. Nice work!

Beautiful drilling!

Wow what a beautiful shop! I used to have a 64 Olds 88, best car ever, nicknamed the Green Wave.

That is some impressive machining! I have never seen a stuck bolt come coiling out. Thanks for sharing.

Good job! ...most of us wish we had your equipment and knowledge.

What an accomplished Craftsman......

We should all have a Bridgeport in our garage......

excellent work

Spin it out with a chisel and 🔨. PB Blast it, heat it cherry red. That almost always works. Heat and ice cycles work too but if its cast it could crack it.

Sweet! Ive had good luck splitting them with a dremel tool. I dont have air tools or space to get the big tools in there half the time. If you're careful you wont damage the threads. The dremmel flex head reaches way in there and i usually get the smallest cut off wheels when it gets really tight, just a few packs of them. Once its split it'll usuall come off a socket or a screwdriver tapping with a hammer. Unfortunately the threads on my threaded stud are complete stripped so idk how ill get that out. Possibly weld a nut to it? Drill it out after i drop the transmission to make room? What a nightmare this project turned into. I was ALMOST done. I need the car tho so had to drive around gassing myself out today. Eyes burning, head out the window. What a great time. That Mustang V8 sure can pollute haha. Worst case scenario i pull the manifold off of the block and install long tube headers. That'd be a shame. And a pain in the ass.

An easy out bit would have got that out in minutes

Excellent work

Sweet, Excellent work.

Superb vid
Many thanks for sharing your skills, what would a job like that run out to please

I did this on a '01 F150 manifold, and what a PIA. Manifold was off the vehicle. Hardened steel studs. Took me a day and a half to finally get it drilled out with a hand drill. Replaced them with top quality Dorman replacements because Ford doesn't stock them anymore. I look forward to the day of never having to do that again.

But how do you remove them with the manifold still on the car?

A picture is worth a thousand words 🤔 Quite an amazing machine shop a perfect place to just drill and retap...if needed🤔 A totally different job If in chassis🤔 Thank you for your help insight 🤔

Enjoyed the video Adam.

All I need is that kool angle plate. Good job!

Great work

Geeze, all that fancy equipment, I just did the exact same thing with a Ryobi 18v cordless drill, two diff sized drill bots, PB blaster, and ONE $3.99 easy out....

Nice process. That's also a great angle plate.

Just bring it to a machine shop is your answer? fail.

That's fine and dandy,, but for the most of us working out of our regular garage without all the fancy equipment. That doesn't help much! We all don't have the option of taking our stuff to the Machine Shop!
Sometimes we have to do it while it's still in the car.

Good to join an Engineer at work.

Great skill

Nice job

Probably didn’t even need to tap it. Precision

i`d weld a big tip on those and grab a vise grip and twist them out first then if that fails weld again and put a but on and build it up inside the nut

Too bad your starter bit doesn't have a tiny point in the middle.

Interesting to see the machinist's approach to this common problem, compared with the auto-technician's normal set of techniques such as welding a nut onto the stub or drilling with a left-hand-cut drill bit.

Steel (bolts) melts at a lower temp then cast iron (manifold). Therefor just use a cutting torch. You clean up the bolt with a wire brush then heat the bolt till it puddles then hit the oxygen. The oxygen will blast the bolt out. You just have to chase the treads with a tap and your set. Works great and it takes a couple minutes.

If in doubt, get the gas axe!

so you need à 2000$ équipements to do this job.....😵‍💫

Just drill it with an oversized bit and use a bolt and nut

Would have thought that after doing all that work, that a quick shot blast would have transformed the finished job ?

I did that to my exhaust. What a pain in the neck. I can appreciate you.

Us assholes just heat it up drill into it pull it out. I guess you can't charge what you charge if you just did that huh.

Im a heavy equipment mechanic and deal with broken hardware all of the time.. I keep a box of crayons in my service truck for stuff like this...only old school techs will know what I'm talking about

This is what men do! Just awesome skills! Thank you. Never thought about using a stick rod and torch to weld! Thank you for the tip!

Dudes legit, his personality is dry but he is a VERY good instructor. You sir have my vote and sub

You took it off the car first?

Weld a nut on the broken stud and turn them out works 99.9 % of the time.

Plasma torch works well where you can't get a drill into .

Really enjoyed this!!!

You know some people don't have use shop to use expensive tools this videos useless

How convenient

Nice job, always enjoyable to watch a true craftsman at work.

Eastwood makes some LEFT hand drill bits that work killer!!