Frontpipe hassle
 

Last night I snapped a bolt on the flange between the frontpipe and overpipe. Anyone else have this happen?

I did...what a nightmare. Long story short, remove the heat shields, remove the over pipe, drill out the old stud and weld in a new one. Or buy a new over-pipe.

A friend had the same problem. Its because Subaru over torques the exhaust nuts.

@Takumi788 i cant tell if the stud is welded in the overpipe side or if its threaded in really tight. do you know?

It's just threaded in if I recall.

One of mine wanted to break when removing it but with enough finesse and PB Blaster I managed to get it loose.

Happened to me too. I was able to get it out though and clean up the threads using a tap. I was fortunate my buddy had a spare stud and lives next to me.

so i could probably just double nut it out and then get a new stud to install?

If you are planning on coming down to the Everett area (or anywhere near by) you can have my stock one.

if i were closer id take you up on that. i'm just going to pick one up at a local hardware store

I'm heading up to Monroe for FD... could I have it? I have had a number of these studs snap on various local cars and I am out of extras to help replace them.

Wont be in town for FD :(. I'll be in Portland in August (don't remember when exactly) But I can swing by and drop it off. Or if anyone else in the area that is going to FD wants to bring it with them, I will hand it off.

Thanks @Imrac!

@DarrenDriven are you going to 86 nights? I can pick up a handful of them and bring them when I go down there on the 25th

wasnt able to get 2 nuts on the stud to get it off so i welded a nut to it and tried turning it and it snapped again. I unbolted the overpipe. I was unable to extract the stud so I drilled it out and used a 10 x 1.25 tap to rethread it. Then the tap SNAPPED INSIDE THE FLANGE ON THE OVERPIPE. I had to drill that out and put a new bolt in it. I have an excuse to get an overpipe now :burnrubber:

After reading on the forums about how people got their overpipes out, mine was surprisingly easy. Once the heat shield was removed I was able to slide it out the front. It was easy to remove and reinstall. I was unable to get the top part of the heatshield on the frontpipe side back on because of the bolt I had to put in.