Exhaust manifold bolt breaking?

[tcalz06]

Originally Posted by Agentorange

I had 2 broken on the right side and 2 broken on the left. The left rear was broken below the surface and it took me a few hours to drill it out and extract it. The other 3 had exposed studs that i ground 2 flats on and used a wrench to get them out. Screw the cheap GM bolts! I installed a set of hardened studs that will never break!

After all of that was done I installed a set of OBX Stainless Long Tubes, stainless high flow cats and stainless all the way out the back. Sounds great, pulls hard and i couldn't be happier!!!

Later,
AO

How long have you had those headers on now? I think you can buy those on Ebay right?

Thanks

[Agentorange]

Originally Posted by tcalz06

How long have you had those headers on now? I think you can buy those on Ebay right?

Thanks

Been on for 1-1/2 months now and all is well. Yes got them on Ebay.
AO

[SMITH23H2SUT]

Any suggestions on what's the best replacement for the bolts?

[NJ H2]

Originally Posted by SMITH23H2SUT

Any suggestions on what's the best replacement for the bolts?

Someone else posted these a while back:
http://www.fastenal.com/web/products...1115929&ucst=t

I just installed them

[pdxrealtor]

Originally Posted by NJ H2

Someone else posted these a while back:
http://www.fastenal.com/web/products...1115929&ucst=t

I just installed them

I installed them as well. They haven't backed out and it's been a couple months.

[Joe]

well I've been fighting a case of procrastination on this very issue for months. In part because I was on the fence on trading the truck in. I finally fell off that fence on to the right side

Anyway I was originally going to go the route PDX took but after some thought I think I want to avoid the long tube headers and probable need for tune and such. I am now looking at this OBX header solution, http://www.ebay.com/itm/OBX-Exhaust-..._2735 wt_1145

I am assuming this are a direct swap with perhaps some very minor benefit but likely better then replacing with stock manifolds which surely will rust to crap in short order. Mine are shot and will need to be replaced.

Question I have is NO EGR is correct for 2003 H2, also anyone have experience with short headers and any thoughts.

Also looks like those Fastenal bolts are out of stock completely. Ordered and hoping its not a big issue but if it is any thoughts on the updated stock bolts which I suppose I could get from the stealership.

[pdxrealtor]

To be clear, I did not need a tune as a result of the LT headers. Not at all.

Call a local Fastenal and ask them to order them in for you. That worked for me for whatever reason.

I don't have much info on the short tubes a side from what you've already mentioned.