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Welcome bud. You can soak the remaining bolts and try pulling them out. The collectors are not to bad to undue at the back if the mans, the retained nuts might break but can replace them with reg nuts. I would swap all of them and if its ever in your plans toss in a set of shorties in there.

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Yep and do it when the Truck is cold. Can Take the inner fenders out too will make it easier. There is a liquid wrench Gel that works good and doesen't run off when sprayed!

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Thanks for the input!!

Replace all the studs. Everytime they are torqued down they stretch and are weakened. The heating of the block and manifold also puts stress on the studs. That is why they snap. When buying replacements, make sure you get the proper grade or go one better. This is one place not to skimp on quality.

Is there somewhere you can buy a compete replacement set of studs/bolts? I'll be upgrading to headers soon and would like to have these handy.

First, it is very common for the manifold studs to break on Hemi's so I would not attribute it to abuse.

Second, like others said, soak all of the studs with liquid wrench/wd40/pb blaster the night before you are going to take them off. I would also have a set of vice grips handy for when you take the manifolds off. You should be able to grab the broken stud with the vice grips and spin them out of the head.

Last, it sounds like a great excuse to get headers since you have to take the manifolds off anyway

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Shorties time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I finally got around to getting the job done. I removed the wheel wells and soaked the bolts overnight with PB blaster. I removed them the next day. The two rear bolts on both sides where broke off at the head of the bolt. Leaving lots of bolt exposed to get a hold of them and take them out. Everything came out easily, except for one.

One bolt forward of the rear two on the passenger side was broke off in the head. You could not get a drill on it easily to use an extractor, the frame had a mount for the upper control arm in the way. I tried many methods to get it out without spending too much money, finally I bought some left hand drill bits & a right angle drive for my drill. It came out while drilling, I did not even need the extractor.

The truck sounds much better now, thank for everyone’s input.

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