Broken Exaust Studs

[The_Modern_Greaser]

Hey guys,

I picked up a set of extractors for my R31 and when tightening the bolts up after putting them on, one of the exaust studs broke off from the head, leaving the end of the stud in the head. I left it out and started the car to see how it went but it just started blowing smoke from the head because its missing it. To my knowledge this is a common problem, i have new studs but have no idea how to get the old one out. Does anyone know a technique to do it or should i just take it to the local exhaust mob?

Any help would be awesome! Thanks!

[StevenCJR31]

only the brave or very skilled take on the removal of broken studs, you can do more harm than good if your not carefull, suggest you take it to an exhaust workshop as they would deal with these on a daily basis

[GTR_JOEY]

na its easy man..

just drill a hole into the broken stud,

get one of those star shaped torque spit on the end of a half inch extension

make sure its a bit larger then the hole u drilled so its a tight fit

hammer it into the stud, then use a ratchet to undo it

done it couple of times now and its pretty fool proof if u take ur time

[89CAL]

But if it goes wrong and you drill to far through, not dead centre, or snap the easy-out in the hole then your pretty much stuffed. Id take it to a professional if you've never done it before, purely because if you stuff it up, you might have to pull the head off.

If it was something less important I'd say sure go for it, but yeah. The cost of getting the tooling and the chances that it can then go wrong, your much better off just paying someone to do it

[GTR_JOEY]

If u don't have the tools fair enough,

Its really not that hard though

I didn't say use an easy out either, they re f**k!n shit

Edited December 25, 2011 by GTR_JOEY

[The_Modern_Greaser]

GTR_JOEY, your a champion! Did it with a torx bit, successfully fitted but its getting lots of smoke coming off the extractors. could that just be somesort of coating on the extractors or do i have a new problem?

[The_Modern_Greaser]

its only when the ectractors get hot ... i'm stumped

[mad082]

it's the coating they put on them, plus if you had oil on your hands when you installed them then that would also add to it. you can give them a degrease and it will help, but it will all burn off after a few drives

[The_Modern_Greaser]

ahh thats good to hear. it had me a bit worried. cheers man

[GTR_JOEY]

Too easy dude, glad to help