Im gonna send this god damn car to the junk yard

[hamilton325i]

Glad to hear you got things sorted out!

[b*saint]

LJ851

Id actually consider myself a pretty good mechanic. Nothing wrong with getting upset. Better than breaking stuff.

[b*saint]

Alright now that I've calmed down I can relate the rest of my epic story.

The stud never came out. I welded a nut on it and it just snapped the stud. I welded another nut and tried using my small impact. Broke the stud again. So I put everything back together anyways. Everything went together perfect. It starts up and idles better than it did before I replaced everything. Im debating whether to bring it in and get that one stud replaced or finish up rebuilding my spare head and slap that baby in on another weekend.

So at the end of this week I did output flange seal on the diff, new guibo and center bearing, and pretty much entirely new exhaust. Im done for a while. The love hate continues. Its not going to the junk yard lol.

Actually now my problem is I have a nut stuck in my swivel impact socket from breaking off the stud.

[peytonracer4]

this ALWAYS happens to me. one small detail that shouldn't matter stops me from completing my task.
i had to literally drill my headlights off to remove a screw. WTF.

[FLG]

Weld a nut on it, and remove.

[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.

[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.

[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....

[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.

[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?

[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.

[LJ851]

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

[dnguyen1963]

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

[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.

[MR 325]

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