Posted by Jonas (Watching the paint dry.) on Monday, September 02, 2002 at 11:50PM :
O.K., So I got a new set of headmann headders installed on the green crummie. The muffler guy tells me that I need to torque down the bolts that hold the headders on every week for a month, then every month for a year. I ask him what the torque should be. He looks at me kind of funny and then it suddenly dawns on him what "torque" is. He just tells me to snug them down good. (I call this, German torque... Goodentight!) Am I missing something here or does loctite have a product that will keep me from busting my knuckles because the only tool with enough clearance to fit on those $^%*$^%* bolts is a open end 1/2" wrench.
This knuckle head also bragged how he saved me $150 by getting the headders without the air tubes. Then he tells me that labor was extra $ because he had to weld on the old air tubes to the headders. My truck runs great when I'm on the gas, but idles rough now, and the check engine light (O2 sensor) comes on intermittently. (I think the computer is screwed up and I'm running rich. Any other ideas?)
I swear, good help is hard to find. I'm going to get a exaust bending machine and start doing my own!
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