Well, things didnt go so well on my glass pack job, the glass pack was to long for me to fit in where the resonator was due to the size of the Y pipe i had to have fabricated. I straight piped it and it sounds terrific i love it, also no more exhaust smell in the car.
Problem: Where the exhaust meets the manifold there are 2 studs, well as i checked them they were loose, on both sides, i tightend up the inner bolts of each but on both of them the outter bolts were shot, i went to tighten the bolt and it spun freely in a circle, when i looked at the bolt the inside of it was totally smooth, there were no threads to be seen at all.
The same happened on the other side. What are my options to fix this? I really dont wanna have to remove the intake manifolds just to have new studs welded on for my exhaust, i dont know how many bolts hold that on but id imagine they wont come out nicely and that sounds like a nightmare job removing everything to get to the manifolds. On the same token i dont think that my exhaust will hold only having one old bolt holding it on on each side.
Thx for the help.