I am trying to remove my aftermarket exhaust to reinstall the stock setup. I installed the aftermarket one a few years ago with my buddy and cannot remember how we managed to remove the hangers from the rubber holders and yesterday while trying could not for the life of me get those suckers out!!! is there a trick or something!?!!?? Thanks in advance for the help!!

 

The older they get the more difficult it gets to remove em! Give them a spray of WD40 and wait 30 minutes and give them another shot, should be easy now...Gary

 

Thanks Gary, ill give it a go tomorrow night!

 

I'll second that. WD40, and a good amount of elbow grease

 

Here's another and very large screw driver for added strength!

 

i use lithium grease and a long pry bar. no need to let it sit or anything

 

WD-40, Kroil, Penetrating oils have their purpose to make your life easier and less prone to injuries. Shoot some AWD-40 in there and then let it do its job. Then bring in the motivator hammer to loosen it up some more .

 

Blaster PB and a tool to pry it apart

 

cant you unbolt the brackets that hold the hangers on to the car? i think thats how i did mine. i just unbolted all the brackets and took the exhaust off the car then pried the hangers off.

 

I put dish soap on the hanger and once I made sure it was really lubbed up, I just pulled and it came right off

 

Heat helps too... maybe warm them up a bit with a heat gun first and then try to remove. If you try to remove them when they are ice cold it'll be 10x harder.

 

Thanks for all the tips guys! Finally got them all off, WD-40 did the trick just right!!

Anyone know the torque specs for the exhaust bolts (stock)?

 

You can tighten them to about the same force as it took to take it off theres no torque spec in the fsm. Only for the manifold and the heat shield, the heat shield is 51 in lbs so maybe torque it to that if you want to torque it? With some high heat lock tight.

 

alright, fair enough, thanks!

 

Torque specs exists for just about everything. Even the dipstick bolt for the auto trans.

Mid pipe to y pipe is 39-47 ft lbs and mid pipe to muffler is 23-28 ft lbs.