I pulled my manifold and turbo tonight and snaped one of the studs of the turbo that is used to bolt the turbo to the manifold. i have since left the manifold and the turbo on the floor ( still attached by 3 bolts ) after spraying some wd40 on the bolts. what do i do about the snaped stud?

 

drill it out and use a screw extractor

 

1+ I did the same thing and I thought it would be ok and I had a hugh exhaust leak. Luckly I had the 9.8 hotside so it gave me a reason to upgrade to the 10.5 hotside. That is a great upgrade!!!!!!!!

 

I had one that a customer snapped off...set it up on the bridgeport and drilled it out carefully. Then ran a tap through it and was good as new.

 

I drilled one out by hand. It took many, many drill bits. It came out eventually. Then a tap. But a few threads still got damaged at the top of the hole.

 

Good luck. had this happen on two of those bolts while working on a friends car. That added 4 hours to the project.

 

Well good luck!! same thing happened to me and like the other guy said I used alot of drill bits. Not the cheap kind but the hardened kind. I think titanuim ones. It was alot of work.

 

What they said...and make sure you don't over torque the bolts when you go to put them on.

 

If the stud is sticking up a ways you could try and extractor. Not the kind you drill in but there is one they have a sears that you use on the outer shank kinda like using vicegrips. Heating the bolt might help when doing this. We tried that first and the bolt snapped, then we used the drill press and then tap.

 

That happened to me, tried to drill it out but after a few hours I got frustrated and just broke out the plasma cutter. Cut straight through the bolt, now I just use a nut on a longer bolt, works fine.

 

Oh and replace the other stud with a bolt so that you will never have to do that again.