Exhaust Studs

[Dead Eye]

Yeah, the damn things are prone to snapping and rusting quite a lot if they aren't looked after. Unfortunately this is exactly my issue.

The old pipes need to be welded quite a bit to be able to pass an M.O.T. regardless and I doubt they would have been suitable for this (metal is too thin now) so they had to come off sooner or later and with the state of the nuts and studs its no surprise they snapped, its just a pain in the ass. The first two came out without too much of a fight, but the subsequent 6 required probably half the amount of torque and just snapped clean off. I guess the metal had just been fatigued too much.

I'm trying what I can to get the bike fixed as fast as possible, but I have no undercover work space (since the garage hasn't been rebuilt yet) and the weather plus a heavy work load is not helping either. If I get extremely lucky and my boss decides that he loves me (not in that way you dirty foccers  :lol ) then I may be able to start, and potentially complete, the engine removal tomorrow / Friday. Then I just need to get the old studs out and get the engine back in...