Striped Exhaust Stud...
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Striped Exhaust Stud...
I've got a 99' mazda miata 1.8L. I turbo'd it in December and it's been doing pretty good. But for some reason one of the exhaust studs backed out a few weeks ago. No biggie, tightened it back. Had a bad feeling though, cause it was tight screwing in, making me thing the threads must be damaged. It started leaking again and today I tried to tighten it and it's stripped. ----. It's an utter BITCH to take all the ---- off to actually remove the manifold. I'm in college right now so I can't take it all apart.
So how can I fix this? My best guess is to remove stripped stud, drill the hole in the manifold where the stud goes bigger and then attempt to drill, tap, helicoil, install new stud. This MIGHT be possible, but there's not a lot of room It will fun trying to tap it straight. Any other way?
Leakage. It's worse than this now.
So how can I fix this? My best guess is to remove stripped stud, drill the hole in the manifold where the stud goes bigger and then attempt to drill, tap, helicoil, install new stud. This MIGHT be possible, but there's not a lot of room It will fun trying to tap it straight. Any other way?
Leakage. It's worse than this now.