Hi , Thanks for your reply. Its sounds like I am guaranteed to have some stripped threads ? Are the fasteners not going to break off rather than strip out ? On other vehicles, I have had to deal with that. Is there a really really good brand of penetrating oil? At the moment I am planning to just remove the front crossover pipe and therefore dealing with only half the fasteners. I may try Midas to see if they can weld up the crack and put it off a little longer. Cheers, Steve |
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