I broke a bolt on my cat
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I broke a bolt on my cat
Well I was removing the catalytic converter from my car because I figured it would be easier to remove my shifter with it gone. In the process I broke of the rear bolts. I dont think it would have broken if I jacked up my car more (limited room with breaker bar) and removed both bolts evenly, but oh well.
Poor bolt, it wasnt in that bad of shape, and my cat is in excellent shape (and I have emissions in a month or two so I dont want to hack it ).
Everything else came out with out a problem. I started my car for a second but then it started to smell so I shut it off. I'll wait until I put my heat sheild back on before I do that again. Now I must go find myself some good grade 8 bolts for the back of it so that it wont happen again.
Poor little bolt. R.I.P. 12/11/2003.
Poor bolt, it wasnt in that bad of shape, and my cat is in excellent shape (and I have emissions in a month or two so I dont want to hack it ).
Everything else came out with out a problem. I started my car for a second but then it started to smell so I shut it off. I'll wait until I put my heat sheild back on before I do that again. Now I must go find myself some good grade 8 bolts for the back of it so that it wont happen again.
Poor little bolt. R.I.P. 12/11/2003.
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Get a 3/8" drill bit and drill out the old bolt. don't bother re-tapping the hole- just stick a new 3/8" bolt with lockwasher and a nut on it and you're done. don't worry about grade 8 either. it's unnecessary. just put some anti-sieze on the bolt and make sure you get zinc plated hardware. shouldn't be a problem after that.
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