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I finally got off my lazy azz and started swapping out my knock sensors. Efffing intake manifold bolt snapped off due to rust. So now not only can I not remove the manifold because the bolt hole is all jammed up with rust but there is too much of the bolt left sticking out of the head to slide the manifold off of.
I need 1 intake bolt for a ls-1. any one have one?
Last edited by zeeman; August 20th, 2014, 02:22 PM.
Ok. So heres what happened. Maybe this will help someone else.
I snapped the 4th bolt on the passenger side of the intake. The bolt, for whatever reason was rusted to about half its normal diameterand and the rust was packed inside the hole in the manifold. I tried to work it back and forth but in the end it just let go about an inch down into the bolt hole.
To remove the manifold I sprayed a bunch of PB blaster into the hole and levered up on the manifold. Once I got it to move up a little I worked it up and down and twisted it as much as I could. It finally let go after about 40 minutes.
Being that there was so much bolt left sticking out, the manifold wouldnt slide forward. So I blocked it up as high as I could and cut off the bolt with a sawzall blade. I left enough to work with to get the bolt out of the head after the manifold had been removed.
Not a horrible job overall but I didnt see that bolt coming. Now for the $64,000 question. Why would that bolt be that rusty on a dry manifold?
have heard of issues where rain water runs down the windshield and somehow collects on the intake manifold. If the intake bolts aren't tight enough the water can get into the engine and even hydro-lock it when you try to start it.
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