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Bikes, Hints'n'Tips => FZS600 Fazer => Topic started by: Fazer Jake on 16 October 2011, 09:13:20 am

Title: exhaust header bolts
Post by: Fazer Jake on 16 October 2011, 09:13:20 am
after spraying them for a week one seemed to snap off at the bolt still  :o will i be ok leaving it? i cant feel any leaks as such
Title: Re: exhaust header bolts
Post by: Fazerider on 16 October 2011, 03:35:11 pm
I had a stud shear off flush with the back of the nut, the rest of the stud was still there so I made up a double length nut, welding the two together, and then filed one end narrow enough to fit into the usefully wide hole on the header clamp. That way it could screw onto the remains of the stud.
Of course, if it is an accessible one and there's enough left of the stud to get a grip on you might replace it... but it's usually one of the inner ones. :rolleyes
Title: Re: exhaust header bolts
Post by: Captain Haddock on 16 October 2011, 09:27:59 pm
As long as you disconnect the battery and the ignitor from the loom you should be able to put a nut over the stud and weld the two together without causing any problems, run the engine till hot or use a heatgun/blowtorch to get the aluminium hot and the stud should come out ok.