Help broken intake bolt
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Racer
Joined: Sep 2006
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Help broken intake bolt
Well I just got my PCM back from esc and I had the intake manifold off to relocate my pesky oil pressure sensor and durin my first pass my chinesse torque wrench poped the intake manifold bolt ... I havnt pulled the manifold off but the bolt is broken mid thread.. Should I be ok to still run the manifold minus that one bolt if everything else is boted down ? I just put new gaskets on. Any help would be greatly appreciated and looks like I learned a lesson in buyin cheap tools. Thank you corvette forum.
I'll get pics up later.
Thanks
Chuck
I'll get pics up later.
Thanks
Chuck
BTW, you can hardly blame the torque wrench. Those bolts are torqued to 89 INCH.. INCH... lbs. You should haven't come anywhere close to snapping one.
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Racer
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Yes I'm a idiot my torque wrench is set in foot lbs oops I didn't Convert and I see now that I clearly over Torqued the bolt ... Ohh well I'll pull the manifold off tomorrow and try to extract the bolt. Funny thing is I've had this manifold off a dozen times and never had a problem.
Thanks
Chuck
Thanks
Chuck
Team Owner
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From: At the beach in little Rhody
The final torque is 89 lb-in, the intermediate torque is 44 lb-in. You cannot accurately do this with a foot pound wrench since it is only 7-1/2 lb-ft. You need to get an lb-in wrench.
Instructor
Joined: Jan 2009
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From: Huntley Illinois
My vote would be to remove the broken bolt doing whatever is required to accomplish that.
I've used these before and depending on your situation you may be able to use something like this:
http://www.garrettwade.com/product.a...FYi6KgodAmoGbA
Shortcuts up-front usually mean more work down the road!
I've used these before and depending on your situation you may be able to use something like this:
http://www.garrettwade.com/product.a...FYi6KgodAmoGbA
Shortcuts up-front usually mean more work down the road!
