Header Bolt
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Header Bolt
I was getting on the 435 on ramp coming home from work tonight and i was in 4th and noticed a truck coming up pretty fast so i downshifted to third and heard a pop and kind of slowed down but my car didnt act any different (The car was still very very cold). Well anywho i got home and lifted up the hood and noticed my right top header bolt had blown out. WTF? well im not familiar with header bolts so how quickly do i need to reaplace it? Should i just go to the auto parts store and buy one or what? now i have a nice exhaust leak until i can get that bolt put back in. 
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Well if it snapped you're in for some fun. Take the car to the machine shop and have the rest of the bolt extracted, the hole retapped and put a new bolt in.
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Rep Power: 424 Bolts dont blow out. They either shear off or back out. That bolt is at least an inch long, and would take a long time to rattle out. So I'm guessing something is still in there.
If there's nothing left in there, just put another bolt in, torque it to 28 lb ft and go, if you hit something on the way in, then you'll need to have the machine shop deal with it.
If there's nothing left in there, just put another bolt in, torque it to 28 lb ft and go, if you hit something on the way in, then you'll need to have the machine shop deal with it.
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