Header Bolts Falling out...

balderman

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I recently discovered 2 missing header bolts and one bolt was almost about to fall out. The bolts were torqued down to spec when we did the motor swap, and I only have about 4k on the new motor.. anyone else run into anything like that?

 

Venom351R

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Mine did the same thing after we put new Headers on mine. This spring I came to find out that almost all were loose and 2 had fallen out. We did the exhast about 3 yrs ago. Might as well replace your headgaskets b/c those are prob blown as well. I know my passenger side one is but its to much of a PITA to take off the S/C and bracket to fit it right now.

 

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You have to tighten them every so often unless you get a set of locking bolts.

 

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Stage 8 Locking Header bolts STG-8913
from summit

 

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stunner6910 said:

Stage 8 Locking Header bolts STG-8913
from summit

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What about just putting lock tight on the bolts.. would that be a bad thing??

 

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No use the STAGE-8 and NEVER worry again about losing the bolts or having exhaust leaks. They're amazing

 

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Stangfreak95 said:

No use the STAGE-8 and NEVER worry again about losing the bolts or having exhaust leaks. They're amazing

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Earls Pressure Master seals EAR-29D03A

also very helpful

 

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Mine kept doing the same thing so I bought a set of Stage 8's. They work great and look kind of cool too.

 

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swingline said:

Mine kept doing the same thing so I bought a set of Stage 8's. They work great and look kind of cool too.

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Stage 8's are good, but I went with the Breslin's:

check em' out!

http://www.go-breslin.com/text.html

 

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Striped5.0 said:

Mine did the same thing after we put new Headers on mine. This spring I came to find out that almost all were loose and 2 had fallen out. We did the exhast about 3 yrs ago. Might as well replace your headgaskets b/c those are prob blown as well. I know my passenger side one is but its to much of a PITA to take off the S/C and bracket to fit it right now.

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And just why would he have to replace his headgaskets? that has nothing to do with header bolds coming out...

 

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i dont trust any advertisement with a leprachaun in it after a bad lucky charms experience i once had . i would go with stage 8 myself.

 

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haulbalz said:

And just why would he have to replace his headgaskets? that has nothing to do with header bolds coming out...

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he probably meant header gaskets...my header bolts were doing the same thing, then the gaskets would let go, and it is a PITA to replace them, so I tried blue Loctite once, it worked for me...someone may have a specific reason not to though...

 

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Can we list prices of the different brands????

 

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I paid around 80 bucks for stainless steel Breslins - expensive, but were worth the xtra cost imo.

As for the leprachaun, and bad lucky charms experience....
I hate lucky charms and those gritty things they call marshmallows too.

 

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I like the Breslins. I have never seen that before. As for me, I'm too cheap for either, I just use loctite.

Kurt

 

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That's funny, i just torqued the piss outta mine, let her get to temp, then tourqued them again. They havn't even gotten loose in 2 yrs.

 

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Lockwashers

simple & cheap!

Later
Grady

 

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haulbalz said:

And just why would he have to replace his headgaskets? that has nothing to do with header bolds coming out...

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I did mean header gaskets


I always love being corrected by a noob

 

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fastf50rd said:

That's funny, i just torqued the piss outta mine, let her get to temp, then tourqued them again. They havn't even gotten loose in 2 yrs.

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I was starting to think I was the only one who did this. My method may take a few extra minutes, but it doesn't require $50 header gaskets or expensive bolt setups to work either.

Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I have yet to lose a header gasket or bolt in all the years I've had headers on cars...and once they're tight and heat cycled and tightened again -- I've never retightened, just checked one more time to make sure. That's all it takes.