go in from the front through the motor mount. have someone help stabilize the socket on the bolt, use air or 24" lever to break loose.

 

Okay I'll try with help soon. Any suggestion on the combo of extensions?

 

if you have access to wobble extensions use them, they make snaking your way to the bolt 10x easier. good luck!

 

Why kind of midpipe, I know it's a pain to get a wrench up there on the passenger side but I did it. Need a swivel socket, I think I used a two 6" extensions and the swivel.

 

Snaked through the k member to get the other two bolts before all this...made this all seem easy but boy was I wrong.

Seems to be the stock midpipe with cats cut out and pipe welded in place.

 

I had my mid pipe out in about 20 minutes my first time around. I used a 18" extension with a swivel socket. I wrapped the swivel with electrical tape just to hold it straight until I got it on the bolt.

Is the mid pipe welded to the header?

 

If u have the room, use a file and file the bolt down and try to get the next size down socket on it


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Are you sure you are using the right socket?

I'm pretty sure those bolts are metric and if its a 12mm head then that's how it got rounded off, a 1/2" socket is just a little bigger than a 12mm socket.

Double check on the bolt size but if it is 12mm then get a 6 wall 12mm socket and hopefully it won't slip.

I'm able to get a pretty straight shot to that top bolt with a long extension (ie 18 or 24 inches) and just one universal joint, coming in from the front but I can't remember exactly where.

 

99% sure it is. There's no wiggle room on When I put the 1/2 socket on the head of the other two bolts. I will try and see if a 12mm fits the top better.

Different motormount designs? Or am I crazy? I couldn't ever get the socket to sit well with the bolt head except with the superglue.

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Definitely a 1/2". And I've been using a 6 point. I picked up a craftsmen bolt extractor socket so I'll be trying that.

wtf are the torque specs on these?

 

Your extensions may be keeping the socket from being all the way on there, that's what happened to me at first thought I had stripped it.

Reach up there with just the socket and put it on there then put on the extensions and try.

 

The bolts are a 13mm head, and the standard equivilent is a 1/2" . It should be pretty easy to get to it with a universal joint or wobble socket with an extension from the front. It will give you lots more room to break it loose

 

If not already mentioned, those Irwin easy outs are a God send. Just get a long enough extension and hammer on the Irwin socket.

 

"wtf are the torque specs on these?"

The torque specs are pretty low, 17 ft-lbs.

The bolts screw into a pretty thin aluminum flange so that's why the torque spec is low and you have to be careful not to over tighten them or they will strip.

Since they aren't supposed to be very tight its surprising that you are having problems with this one bolt. It may have been overtorqued or sometimes a steel bolt in aluminum can get locked up from corrosion.

Unfortunately when this aluminum to steel corrosion does occur it can lock a bolt pretty firmly.

If you have any PB Blaster, liquid wrench or Kroil squirt some on the bolt end from the starter side.

Be careful when re-installing the bolts, 17 ft-lbs isn't much of a pull on a wrench.

 

Your extensions may be keeping the socket from being all the way on there, that's what happened to me at first thought I had stripped it.

Reach up there with just the socket and put it on there then put on the extensions and try.

I love you so much. You were right about the socket just falling off the head of the bolt. Got another swivel joint and I finally got this sick sonofabitch out after ~4 hours. I wouldn't be surprised if it was overtorqued by a certain shop a couple years ago since they overtorqued a **** ton of other things including my oil filter.

THANK YOU!!! Seriously, I haven't been this excited since I put my phb/lcas on.