Im gonna send this god damn car to the junk yard

[b*saint]

Now a fucking stud is stuck in the head. Ive tried everything to get it out. Kroil, head, vise grips. I have the smallest vise grips on there and it just eats the fucking metal right off the stud. Fuck it. Im gonna just go without one stud. What a fucking joke this fucking car is.

[M-technik-3]

That's why I don't turn wrenches on my Ti. I outsourced the starter job.

[rav320uk]

Can you not weld a nut onto the thread???

[CHIF8008]

calm your temper. the proper tools for the proper jobs.

may need to weld something on/ as said before

[thebutcher37]

Yeah try the weld method... worked for me once before...

[MR 325]

Can I ask what stud is stuck and why you even want to remove it?

[hamilton325i]

If you're short on patience working on a 20+ year old car may not be for you. There are challenging problems even with new cars. When you add decades of stress, corrosion and probable misuse you compound the difficulty. In short, never expect things to go perfectly. Especially on something that will be considered "classic" in the not so distant future ;)

I try to recognize when I'm getting pissed off and take a step back so I don't start breaking shit. But thats just me.

I'm sure you'll get it out with some ingenuity. Best of luck.

[dnguyen1963]

Take some pictures and post them up here so we can see what you are dealing with.

[LJ851]

I'm a crap mechanic, so i'll just throw a tantrum and blame the car when i run out of skill

[bernzpeed]

put 2 nuts on the stud (one on top of each other) and tighten them then use the inner one to turn to loosen...duh.

[e30jake]

put 2 nuts on the stud (one on top of each other) and tighten them then use the inner one to turn to loosen...duh.

This. Unless you already fucked the threads too much. Then try to grind off as much of the stud as you can then drill it out?

[nando]

if it's an exhaust stud and you can drill it out, you can get new exhaust studs that are M8 on one end and M6 on the other.

[Roysneon]

If you're short on patience working on a 20+ year old car may not be for you. There are challenging problems even with new cars. When you add decades of stress, corrosion and probable misuse you compound the difficulty. In short, never expect things to go perfectly. Especially on something that will be considered "classic" in the not so distant future ;)

I try to recognize when I'm getting pissed off and take a step back so I don't start breaking shit. But thats just me.

I'm sure you'll get it out with some ingenuity. Best of luck.

Don't worry, he has an E36....

[valleymotorwerks]

Now a fucking stud is stuck in the head. Ive tried everything to get it out. Kroil, head, vise grips. I have the smallest vise grips on there and it just eats the fucking metal right off the stud. Fuck it. Im gonna just go without one stud. What a fucking joke this fucking car is.

grow up

Take it to a welding shop... what I do is weld a bolt to it and simply screw it out, work smart not hard.

[Threehz]

You can always drill into it and screw it out, no?

Also, did you try using a blow torch on it? Heat is the best cure for old stuck studs..

I can relate though. I just had to remove the four nuts that hold the fuel sender unit to the fuel pump. All four nuts were stripped completely. There was no way to get them to catch the threading on the fuel pump... Would be super easy if there wasn't gasoline all around... I had to manually cut each one off. Talk about a PITA.

Good luck man.