Manifold Replacement

Replacing my manifolds next week just wondering if theres anyone who knows how hard of a job it is. Looks like a bastard of a job do i have to remove the A/C or can i work around it??? And my biggest fear snapping off an exhaust bolt any tricks of the trade for helping them on there way out?

Soak it all down with PB Blaster the night before. You'll thank yourself. But, when you say replacing your manifolds.. do you mean that as in your putting on some LT headers? :naughty: Not sure about the A/C. I know on my 3.4 I had to unmount the compressor from the accessory bracket and push it down as far as I could to get it to go to get it out of the way. Never had to disconnect the lines to it.

What car?
And replacing what with what?

My bad .. Exhaust manifolds on a 1987 iroc 5.7L

Well got 9 of the 12 bolts out sooo now i got to remove the head any ideas on prices for head gaskets and intake gaskets??

Don't need to remove the heads to do exhaust manifolds. In fact to remove the heads, you need to first remove the manifolds.

Manifolds are easy to take off...what are you replacing them with?

dont tell me your replacing them anything other than headers...

Broke 3 Of The Bolts Off In The Head...shity And No There Not Easy To Remove THERE IS Hardly Any Room

oh dear.....did you soak it all down with PB Blaster the night before?

i did this on my old camaro, didn't have many problems.
had no a/c though.
plus i soaked it so nothing broke.
you can get gaskets from summit super cheap.
or your local pep boys.
i don't know what to do with those broken bolts though.

looks like you're buying new heads, too...lol

Soak it all down with penetrating oil (PB blaster, WD-40, etc), get the manifolds off. Then if there is enough bolt sticking out from the broken ones, use vicegrips to remove them. Again.. YOU MUST SOAK THE BOLTS WITH PENETRATING OIL FIRST!

Broken bolt's are never fun