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?
Header Bolts Falling out...
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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.
No use the STAGE-8 and NEVER worry again about losing the bolts or having exhaust leaks. They're amazing 
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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Mine kept doing the same thing so I bought a set of Stage 8's. They work great and look kind of cool too.
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
check em' out!
http://www.go-breslin.com/text.html
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.
. i would go with stage 8 myself.
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...haulbalz said:
I like the Breslins. I have never seen that before. As for me, I'm too cheap for either, I just use loctite.
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fastf50rd said:
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.
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