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Old 01-23-2019, 04:36 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by SuperTom View Post
If your are able to have the car jacked up in advance with the skid plate removed and soak the bolts with PB blaster 24 hours beforehand. And have a cheap torch from home depot (I use the yellow bottle of propane not sure the exact names) ready. You will be amazed how 10 secs of torch on a bolt will make it so easy.
That yellow-bottled Benzomatic Butane thing from Home Depot is exactly what we got a few weeks back. We were trying to break my friend's coilover bolts loose, but his other idiot friend had torqued them to 6 trillion ft-lb with an impact, so even the torch did nothing.

And yes, I plan on jacking the car up the night before, removing the heat shields, and soaking everything in PB blaster. Also, anyone think it's worth running the car briefly day-of, just to warm up the exhaust a bit (not burning hot obviously) or will that just expand the studs too and not really be worth the effort?
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