Overpipe stud broke!

[edeekeos]

Ugh, this just happened while trying to install my new front pipe. It was cross threaded from the factory, nothing I could do. Needless to say my baby is gonna be out of commision for a couple weeks now I guess, until I get a new overpipe. Oh well, planned on doing the OP anyway, just not this soon.

Just needed to share this.

[steve99]

Originally Posted by edeekeos

Ugh, this just happened while trying to install my new front pipe. It was cross threaded from the factory, nothing I could do. Needless to say my baby is gonna be out of commision for a couple weeks now I guess, until I get a new front pipe. Oh well, planned on doing the OP anyway, just not this soon.

Just needed to share this.

Cut off the remainig bit of stud, drill it through and use a nut and bolt to secure, if you cannot do it most exhaust/machine shop could do it

[edeekeos]

Yeah that was one thought. I panned on replacing the OP anyway though, so I'm just gonna order a nice one. I'll just have to ride in the wife's legacy for a couple weeks. Good thing we work the same hours at the same place..

[tahdizzle]

Mine were cross-threaded from the factory too when I installed my OP.

What I thought was gonna take a couple of hours took all night because of those bolts.

[Migero86]

hehehe... had this happen to me too.

I think my neighbors thought a gang of angry foul mouthed truckers were in my garage with all the language that was being spewed from under the car. I finally got them out using 2 wrenches intertwined for maximum leverage. Now if I wanna run that pipe I have to use separate nuts and bolts.

[skyloran]

this is why i pick up Nameless... frontpipe + overpipe combo.

[tahdizzle]

You still have to remove the factory pipes.. which were the ones cross threaded. :p

[IAMTHEWG]

Same thing happened here. Wth??

[cnk]

One of my nuts from the OP to the front pipe were cross-threaded as well. I'm starting to wonder if the factory does this on purpose so that they'll know if the cat in the front pipe was messed with or not. Either that, or the guy doing the assembly on that part just sucks. I had to Dremel the nut off. . took like 5 cutting discs to finally get it off. Luckily I already had a Perrin OP that I was installing as well.

You should be able to remove the stud from the OP afterwards and replace it with a new one from Pep Boys, Autozone, Advanced Auto, OEM, etc.

[toby714]

same thing happened to my car lol @_@

[edeekeos]

I actually work at the US Subaru manufacturing facility for the legacy/outback models. The exhaust components are bolted with what's called transducer guns. They are fully regulated for torque and click off automatically. Sometimes these guns will fail, or consistantly cross thread, and in that case an associate will use the manual wrench and force them the rest if the way on. It's cheaper then replacing the entire piece. It happens constantly, in all parts of the shop. It will generally get tapped if possible, but a lot of the times with high torque items, it's better to not cut the threads, and just hammer it on. Still no excuse for it, but that's what happens, whatever they can do to save a penny..